JORGE LUIS BORGES
Shortly after receiving the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature, Colom- bian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez remarked upon the mysterious failure of the Nobel committee to recognize the elder statesman of modem Latin American letters, Jorge Luis Borges: "I still don't un-derstand why they don't give it to him." It was not false modesty. Like other Latin American writers, Garcia Marquez owes much to the labyrinthine imagination of Borges, who died last summer. His luminous f...