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Even before Nixon arrived home, the world of course reacted to the Moscow summit. Milan's respected columnist Enzo Bettiza said that the summit marked the start "of a new era of clarification, of ideological realism, of diplomatic maturity in international relations." Never again, he predicted, would a local event, such as "the assassination of an archduke in the Balkans, unleash a world conflict." Yet while the two powers refrain from attacking each other, Bonn's pro-government paper Neue Rhein Zeitung contended, they "tacitly reserve the right to continue beating, tormenting and destroying the other partner...
...portents, though, are for an era of more treaties and agreements, more realism and less rampant ideology...
Czechoslovakia is no longer regarded as a danger. The border with China is relatively dormant. Viet Nam, despite the mining of Haiphong, is being downplayed by the Soviet leadership. The byword is realism; the new necessity is to improve conditions at home. One hears it privately from friends and colleagues: the Soviet Union is reordering its priorities. Nuclear sufficiency and a SALT agreement mean a reallocation of resources and more spending on consumer goods. "We are about to turn a corner," a woman official told me. "The summit could mean changes at home as well as in our relations with...
...preface might make sense, however, if we understand that realism in the Borgesian sense can only be unconventional, because of the very particular and unconventional nature of the universe which it seeks to describe. The "voice" which tells these stories may have new intonations and emphases; but it also shares important elements of the style and thought of the earlier works--Ficciones, published in America in 1962, and Labyrinths, published...
Other stories in the collection have the same mixture of the commonplace and the mysterious, the concrete and the metaphysical. In a certain sense, these stories do partake in a "realism" which is different from Borges's earlier works. The stories collected in Ficciones and Labyrinths have been appropriately called "metaphysical fictions"; they include parables of uncertain or cryptic explanation, fantastic tales of civilizations and customs which oddly and perversely reflect our own, and pseudo-essays where actual erudition is intermingled with fictional sources, where creation and criticism perplexingly resemble one another. In all of these early stories, through...