Mystery #3 for Literary Snobs: Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Any excuse to read this South American grandmaster is a good one. Luckily for us, mysteries were his favorite fiction. As fellow South American author Alberto Manguel reminisced about Jorge Luis Borges in his piece in the 2006 Criminal Content issue of Words Without Borders: “He loved detective novels. He found in their formulae the ideal narrative structures that…