The first time I heard about Borges visiting Minneapolis was from my friend Stuart Klipper. I think my face melted a little bit when he told me. This photo was taken on Borges’ birthday in 1983. Stuart was his host for a portion of his stay and snapped a number of photos of Borges while he was visiting. Nearly a decade later the venerable Brad Zellar wrote a great piece mapping the literary history of the Twin Cities. He closes that article with Klipper’s recounting of Borges “singing an Argentine Milonga in his ear, and—perhaps under the spell of Hiawatha’s “dancing waters”—dancing a tango alone in Minnehaha Park.”jorge luis borges in minneapolis
Borges! Really in Minneapolis? What statue is that?
the mystery remains. solve, please.
i am so, so pleased by this story. face melter indeed!
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