by Jorge Luis Borges
The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)Foreword--Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius--The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim--Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote--The Circular Ruins--The Lottery in Babylon--A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain--The Library of Babel--The Garden of Forking PathsArtifices (1944)Foreword--Fu...
Challenging and full of ideas; I'm still chewing on it, two weeks out. If you haven't read dense fiction in awhile, I'd start with the stories in Part Two, then track back to Part One. Wasn't as much a fan of the ones that were meta-literary criticism, though these have many clever bits. All are sto...
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/85474584243/ficciones-by-jorge-luis-borgesAs I was reading these stories, these ficciones, I was wondering where I might have heard this Borges voice before. And as I read it seemed to me that each story was important in its own rank as if derived from a serious study ...
Borges' Ficciones consists of two "books" of 17 short works of fiction published mostly in the 1940s. I'm told they're landmarks in not just Latin American fiction but modernist literature. Woven throughout the stories are fantastic elements I can well imagine fed into magical realism. I can't say I...
This book tied my head in knots, but somehow I enjoyed it. And want to reread it, repeatedly, so my brain might be tied in knots again.
The first story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" can leave you scratching your head if you have no background of Borges nor have read much in the magical realism genre. However, upon reading once and feeling confused, read it a second time, and you many find yourself picking up on other details.Borges i...
Odlične priče, iako osjećam da mi izmiče onaj viši smisao koji nikako ne mogu proniknuti.
This book is awesome, it takes time to read the book because there is a lot in there to consume. All short stories are really interesting to read and I found myself reading twice some of them. it is not a dangerous book if taken small doses at a time.
These stories are set your brain on fire brilliant. "The Babylon Lottery" and "The Library of Babel" are two in particular that return to my thoughts regularly even though I read the book only once about 20 years ago. Whenever I think about the reader response school of literary criticism I think ...
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