Hear “Shakespeare’s Memory” by Jorge Luis Borges

In this record­ing above and below, hear Hisham Matar read “Shake­speare’s Mem­o­ry,” by Jorge Luis Borges. The sto­ry was orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in The New York­er in 1998. It has since been pub­lished in the col­lec­tion, The Book of Sand and Shake­speare’s Mem­o­ry. Find this read­ing list­ed in our col­lec­tion, 1,000 Free Audio Books: Down­load Great Books for Free.

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