George Steiner at The New Yorker (New Directions Paperbook) by Steiner George

Author:Steiner, George [Steiner, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2009-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

My feet tread the shadows of the lances that spar for the kill. The taunts of my death,

the horses, the horsemen, the horses’ manes,

tighten the ring around me. . . . Now the first

blow, the lance’s hard steel ripping my chest,

and across my throat the intimate knife.

“The Intruder,” a very short story recently translated into English, illustrates Borges’s present ideal. Two brothers share a young woman. One of them kills her so that their fraternity may again be whole. They now share a new bond: “the obligation to forget her.” Borges himself compares this vignette to Kipling’s first tales. “The Intruder” is a slight thing, but flawless and strangely moving. It is as if Borges, after his rare voyage through languages, cultures, mythologies, had come home and found the Aleph in the next patio.

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