“For someone who hated being interviewed, Borges was a prolific and garrulous interviewee (although it was perhaps ‘Borges’ who handled that side of things). And yet, to point this out is to risk missing the substance of what he is saying here, which is not simply that he feels himself at odds with his own public persona but that he feels himself profoundly at odds with how little he is at odds with it. (Such paradoxes are an occupational hazard in any encounter with Borges.)”