Bruce Hartman

I hardly know where to start with this one. Nick is a graduate student in Comparative Literature at Ipswich University near Harvard. He is asked to pick up a visiting professor from the airport. This turns out to be Jorge Luis Borges. Thus begins a year long relationship between the two as they attempt to solve several extraordinary murders. I can do no better than this quote, "they attempt the equally baffling conundrums of literature and philosophy, including Zeno's paradoxes, the mind/body problem, and the mysteries of destiny, personal identity and artistic creation." Borges refers to Zeno, Spinoza, De Quincy, Aristotle and others as though the reader is aware of their work. I think it does help if the reader has some familiarity with philosophy but it's still a puzzling book. I was puzzled by much of the book but actually really enjoyed it. It definitely gives material for thought.… (meer)