Will Self reads 'On Exactitude in Science' by Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges’s combination of the anecdotal, philosophical and the literary showed Will Self how to achieve the ‘truly veridical’. He gets his coordinates from ‘On Exactitude in Science’

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Presented by the Guardian's Claire Armitstead and Lisa Allardice, each programme features an interview with a leading author and a reading of the author's favourite short story by another writer