El factor Borges

But more than a collection of critical essays, *The Borges Factor* delves into the main concepts associated with that universe—originality, tradition, library—to map not only the core of his texts but also the configuration of his identity. It is a profound and relentless search for the image he projected during his lifetime and posthumously, and, of course, for that perfect machine that anticipated its time and transcends its own syntax. Even what we don't always consider about Borges finds a dimension in this book. Even his persistently combative nature and those subtle yet significant strategies that Pauls interprets masterfully, such as the apparent coquetry of subtracting only one year from his age to coincide exactly with the century in which he lived.