https://www.gwern.net/docs/borges/1951-borges-theargentinewriterandtradition.pdf
In his essay ‘The Argentine Writer and Tradition’ Borges made clear the scope and the scale of the ambition of the Argentine writers of the twentieth century. He suggested that by virtue of being so distant and so close to Europe at the same time the Argentine writer had more ‘rights’ to Western culture than anyone in any western nation. They were like Irish writers, he wrote, for whom it was ‘enough, the fact of feeling Irish, different, to become innovators within English culture.’ (italics added)
Sabato, Ernesto. The Tunnel (Penguin Classics) (p. viii). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle edition.
