Collected Fictions
ISBN:
9780141181103 (0141181109)
Publisher: G P Putnam's Sons
Edition language: English
Selected Fictions:The Garden of Forking PathsMan on Pink CornerThe Library of Babel#56 TBR Busting 2013
Reading Jorge Luis Borges's Collected Fictions is like being thrown into the ring with a merciless prize fighter, getting the shit kicked out of you, and loving every minute of it.These pieces felt more like punches than short stories. Borges jabs to your head, jarring your brain with damning conver...
Loved the twists and turns and humor in his stories. Am just sorry that this was highlights of the collected works, so I still need to track down the book version to read many of the stories I'd hoped to get on the audio. Still, the audio makes me want to run out and get the book, pronto!
Deep in Don Quixote, for a while I convinced myself that Cervantes had written the footnotes too, and the Quixote commentators the editor cited were actually made up by Cervantes. He messes with you like that: he plays so many tricks that you end up thinking anything is possible.Four months later I...
Labyrinths. Space and time. Lions. Life and death. Coins. Memory and identity.
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