Everything & Nothing
by Jorge Luis Borges
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Read in May, 2007
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Does New Directions make bad books?
This is perhaps the best introduction to Jorge Luis Borges. It is short, and covers all the bases. However, I was fortunate enough to read first a story not included here that it still one of my favorites. Regardless, this book contains his best nonfiction essays, and several stories central to his fame. Strike that, his legacy.
For sheer wit diguising profundity: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
-In which Borges exhibits the tenuous nature of meaning t...more
This is perhaps the best introduction to Jorge Luis Borges. It is short, and covers all the bases. However, I was fortunate enough to read first a story not included here that it still one of my favorites. Regardless, this book contains his best nonfiction essays, and several stories central to his fame. Strike that, his legacy.
For sheer wit diguising profundity: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
-In which Borges exhibits the tenuous nature of meaning t...more
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Read in March, 2007
Amelia recommended Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, but I recommend Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and The Garden of Forking Paths. Also, the Believer loves this guy. So if you read the believer, you should read this.
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Read in February, 2008
A startling but pleasant batch of surrealism that draws from many philosophical and physical concepts. Must read for fantasy/sci-fi literary junkies but would be enjoyable for anyone who enjoys the odd and fantastic.
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Read in May, 2008
Borges is absolutely brilliant. This slim volume remarkably showcases his genius not only as short-story writer, but also as philosopher, historian, literary theorist, sociologist, and general Renaissance man.
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Read in June, 2008
While reading this book I kept getting lost, whether in the subway or in my own room. It was the good kind of lost, mostly.
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Read in January, 2007
Shares a kind of warped magical realism with Garcia Marquez
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