November 5th, 2009 / 4:59 pm
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The marketing and mythologizing comment thread on the Moya essay recalled, for me, David Foster Wallace’s remarkable 2004 review of a Borges biography. Wallace talks about the intentional fallacy and, if my reading is correct, indicts the practice of literary biography in general. (The connection to the Moya essay is oblique, but the review is worth reading on any terms.)

2 Comments

  1. November 6th, 2009 / 3:47 pm james yeh—

      i’d agree: i don’t quite see the link between this and the previous thread, but DFW’s review is certainly worth the read. i found his description of borges’s merits to be incredibly lucid.

  2. November 6th, 2009 / 11:47 am james yeh—

      i’d agree: i don’t quite see the link between this and the previous thread, but DFW’s review is certainly worth the read. i found his description of borges’s merits to be incredibly lucid.