How Borges Wrote - Daniel Balderston, 2018

For those who have checked out books from the Library of Babel….

This is not a treatise on those well-known recurring themes dear to Borges or an exploration of his stylist tendencies, but a look into the way he planned his work and the process of revision he used over successive drafts in an almost procedural/combinatorial manner. It is also an investigation into the way he annotated his handwritten manuscripts with symbols as a shorthand – and as code – for the underlying structural logic of his stories. More images in the comments.