from The Argentine Writer and Tradition
“I think Shakespeare would have been amazed if people had tried to limit him to English themes, and if they had told him that, as an Englishman, he had no right to compose Hamlet, whose theme is Scandinavian, or Macbeth, whose theme is Scottish. The Argentine cult of local color is a recent European cult which the nationalists ought to reject as foreign.”
Jorge Luis Borges
(Labyrinths, Selected Stories & Other Writings / New Directions 1962)
