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”The truth is I grew up in a garden, behind lanceolate railings, and in a library of unlimited, English books.” Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges, possibly one of the greatest readers of all time, lost his eyesight later in life. I believe the most terrible thing to have happen to a reader is to Leggi tutto

To me Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges is the ultimate anthology of short stories… I find in it everything I ever want to find in literature: reality and surreality, rationality and irrationality, fables and parables, legends and myths, mysticism and philosophy, history and fantasy and an endless enigm Leggi tutto

في صالة منزلنا القديم تستند رضا إلى الباب الموارب وتقول لي تحيرني قصص بورخس يا صديقي لا تمنحك شيئا تستند إليه تأخذك لقلب متاهة مغناطيسية وحيدا... تائها... في عالم مغلق بلا أبواب لا يراه غيره... يدور بورخس معه مكتبته العابرة للقارات أفكاره التي لا يلتقطها القارئ وإن شعر بها تزن في المجال المحيط برا Leggi tutto

The author is a master of mixing fantasy and philosophy. He has been credited as a pioneer in magical realism in Latin American literature. In this classic collection, most stories are almost as much essays as they are short stories. Recurring themes are non-existent and ancient books. Time. Geometr Leggi tutto

Borges looked inside the swirling mind of man and made a maze of it. A glorious maze! The maze that is Ficciones is a maze built of mazes, one opening unto another, circling around and looping back, an infinity of mazes, small as the smallest of small minds, large as the universe can be imagined. It Leggi tutto

Ok, I'd tried to read Labyrinths years ago and found it dry and dull. I thought that perhaps I just wasn't in the proper state of mind, or perhaps wasn't well read enough to get it. I'd also come off of a Calvino kick, so Borges felt boring. Fast forward to me thinking that I really should commit to Leggi tutto