Will Self reads 'On Exactitude in Science' by Jorge Luis Borges

Guardian Short Storie by The Guardian

Jan 4, 201300:06:19Arts

Jorge Luis Borges’s combination of the anecdotal, philosophical and the literary showed Will Self how to achieve the ‘truly veridical’. He gets his coordinates from ‘On Exactitude in Science’

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