1. 29 This knowledge allows him to trace the development of Proustian themes and reconstruct how Proust wrote his book, step by step.

2. The adjective “Borgesian” is almost as familiar as “Kafkaesque” or “Proustian.” The story of Borges’s move from the relative periphery of Argentina to the centrality of literary fame is a textbook example of the pattern described by Pascale Casanova in her celebrated World Republic of Letters.