Bookish Diversions: After the Final Chapter
A Literary Estate in Limbo, When Authors Regret Their Books, Borges and Buckley, More
¶ Will or no will. María Kodama said she planned to live for 200 years. She didn’t make it. Wife of the celebrated Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, Kodama died late in March at age eighty-six. Borges, thirty-eight years her senior, died almost forty years before Kodama at the very same age.
He also made a significant decision regarding her future a…
