Urinating on Jorge Luis Borges’s grave was an artistic act, says Chilean writer

Eduardo Labarca appears to urinate on the grave of Jose Luis Borges on the cover of his book The Enigma of the Modules. Photograph: Catalonia

Book cover depicting Eduardo Labarca apparently urinating on author’s grave provokes outrage in Argentina.

 

Jorge Luis Borges was possibly the greatest Spanish-language writer of the 20th century, but the Chilean author Eduardo Labarca felt the best tribute a fellow writer could pay would be to urinate on his tomb.

A photograph on the cover of 72-year-old Labarca’s latest book appears to show him doing exactly that in the Geneva graveyard where Borges’s well-tended, flower-adorned tomb lies.     ….read more