Borges on Kafka, Shakespeare, Joyce and the expressionists
Here’s another dialogue Jorge Luis Borges had with Osvaldo Ferrari for
Buenos Aires’ Radio Municipal. The dialogue is titled “Kafka puede ser parte de
la memoria humana” (Kafka may be part of human memory). Borges is telling
Ferrari that he’s going to France to deliver a lecture to the French Academy on
Franz Kafka. Ferrari asks him to elaborate on what he’s going to say: