Some letters from Thomas Pynchon come to light showing his admiration for Borges

At the University of Texas, there are a series of letters from the enigmatic Thomas Pynchon addressed to a friend in which he gives an account of the impact that reading the stories of Jorge Luis Borges meant for him: “When I understand my true vocation as a literary critic and write the definitive work on 20th century Argentine literature, this I think will be my basic dichotomy: the labyrinth and the plain,” he says. A predictable, but at the …