Is nothing previously written? Is everything? Much of the writing is steeped in South American culture and history, particularly that of Argentine and Uruguay.
This is partially because many parts of this seem like an almost reality of fiction… it's hard to tell what Borges is taking from other writers and what he's inventing whole cloth.
Which makes Borges's writing all the stranger, because much of it actually seems almost random at times, but somehow he makes it all work. Both authors have a magical aspect to their writing, but for me, Gaiman tends to fall off the knife's edge of maintaining that consistent logical magic. Jorge Luis Borges is what Neil Gaiman wants to be.
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