false <![CDATA[Dreamtigers (Texas Pan American Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172180199m/146429.jpg 146429 11 <p> <cite>Dreamtigers</cite> has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of <cite>Great Books of the Western World</cite>. It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, <cite>Dreamtigers</cite> at first glance appears to be a sampler&#151;albeit a dazzling one&#151;of the master's work. Upon closer examination, however, the reader discovers the book to be a subtly and organically unified self-revelation. </p> <p> <cite>Dreamtigers</cite> explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world. The central vision of the work is that of a recluse in the "enveloping serenity " of a library, looking ahead to the time when he will have disappeared but in the timeless world of his books will continue his dialogue with the immortals of the past &#151; Homer, Don Quixote, Shakespeare. Like Homer, the maker of these dreams is afflicted with failing sight. Still, he dreams of tigers real and imagined and reflects upon of a life that, above all, has been intensely introspective, a life of calm self-possession and absorption in the world of the imagination. At the same time he is keenly aware of that other Borges, the public figure about whom he reads with mixed emotions: "It's the other one, it's Borges, that things happen to." </p> 1076307 1960 Dreamtigers (Texas Pan American Series) total:391|5:209|4:115|3:57|2:9|1:1| 391 1695 548 28 5 2 false false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 17:16:31 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 17:43:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 20:06:41 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 20:14:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 09:22:36 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 19:54:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 25 14:42:21 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 16:40:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 23 01:47:12 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 24 03:30:25 -0800 2008
Borges is the most engaging philosopher I have ever read. He was a man who read every book. His imagination was infinite.

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