“We know that prior to Dante, Saint Augustine wrote [his] Confessions. But his [Augustine’s] confession, [though] distinct in its marvelous eloquence, is not as close to us as the creation of Dante, since the amazing lexical richness of the African [Saint Augustine] comes between what he wants to say and what we hear.”
I cannot fully agree with Jorge Luis Borges’ analysis. Both of these writing have a different meani