Don’t abandon me
Colm Tóibín: Borges and the Maids, 11 May 2006
“... ability to read French improved, he found that the only comfort available was in books. He read Carlyle in English, and soon began to read philosophy in German. In 1917, when he was 18, he began a friendship with someone his own age, Maurice Abramowicz, who also loved books and poetry. It was the first of many such sustaining literary friendships. The ... ”
