Rodrigo Fresán: I killed Borges?
by Habitus · 02/23/10
Habitus contributor Rodrigo Fresán has published an autobiographical essay in Granta, in which he tells the story of the time he thought he had killed Borges.
Upon turning a corner (my girlfriend ran fast, she was already a long way ahead; she belonged to a gym, did aerobics, was in much better shape than me) I barreled into a lightweight old man. The man flew through the air, clutching his stick and uttering choked little cries. He fell face up and then I discovered that the man was Borges and that I, maybe, had killed Borges.
Thankfully, the great man survived, and Fresán went on to his own distinguished life of letters, including a long-standing friendship with posthumous literary superstar Roberto Bolaño.
For more from Borges, read our own never-before-translated interview.
