No todo es vigilia la de los ojos abiertos
Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2001. 1st Edition. Paperback. 430p., notes, onomastic index. new. Item #14381
ISBN: 9500505770
As a writer, Macedonio published some unconventional volumes and his annotations are still being collected after twenty years of his death. His first book, published in 1928, entitled Not Everything is Vigil. The one with the eyes open. It was an extensive essay on idealism, written in a deliberate tangled and intricate style, with the aim, I suppose, of equating it with the entanglement of reality itself. (...) Before Macedonio I had been a gullible writer. His main gift was making me read skeptically. At the beginning, he plagiarized it with devotion, picking up some of his stylistic mannerisms that he later regretted. Now I see it, however, as you will see an Adam confused by the Garden of Eden. His genius survives in only a few of his pages; his influence was of a Socratic nature. He really loved that man, on this side of the idolatry."The certainty that on Saturday, in a confectionery of the Once, we would hear Macedonio explain what absence or what illusion is the self, it was enough, I remember it very well, to justify the week."
Jorge Luis Borges.
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