Dreamtigers
by Jorge Luis Borges
Dreamtigers
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I've been beguiled by Borges' short fiction before - he has an incredible talent for creating unsettling paradoxes with great economy (his short works are truly short) - but at the same time I often felt like his well-polished miniatures were a little too detached and dry.
However, in this collection of parables, prose shorts and poems, he reveals a much more personal side of himself. As well as displaying some of his typical subtle puzzles, he also contemplates death and loss, what...more
However, in this collection of parables, prose shorts and poems, he reveals a much more personal side of himself. As well as displaying some of his typical subtle puzzles, he also contemplates death and loss, what...more
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Read in August, 2007
recommends it for:
people looking to get into Borges
This is a little less heavy on the math stuff than say, The Aleph, and all in all it's a good mix of poetry and prose works. The translation was good, personally I prefer Ficciones but I think that might be because it was the first Borges I read. For everyone who had to read The Library of Babel in some english class and got a headache from it, this would be a good introduction to some of Borges' other stuff. The pieces are short and easily digestible, and altogether wonderful.
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Read in December, 2003
I stole this book off Jonathan's porch a long time ago in Denton Texas . The poems are of course magnificent and the dreams evoked as raging and ferocious as any jungle beast.
Jonathan i know you wanted me to return this book, but I still have it. And now I have to say I can't part with it. Its your own fault for leaving boxes of magnificent books lying around on your porch.
You old scallywag
Jonathan i know you wanted me to return this book, but I still have it. And now I have to say I can't part with it. Its your own fault for leaving boxes of magnificent books lying around on your porch.
You old scallywag
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First of all, I don't pretend to understand everything in this book. Borges is kind of a mystery to me sometimes. But there are a few poems and "thoughts" that hit me so hard I remember exactly where I was when it first clicked, and what I thought about for several hours after that.
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Read in October, 2007
A tiny little volume, but each miniature work, often less than a page in length, deserves a slow and careful read. I particularly enjoyed the essays/ prose poems in the first half.
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I love the piece in here where he talks about the public view of himself. I first read it in a lit theory class. Great piece.
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Read in March, 2008
A vibrant and thoughtful collection of poems, snatches, quotes. Makes me yearn for more.
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One of the most beautiful articulations of longing I've ever read.
*nods*
*nods*
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late fragments, meditations on a life split into persona & the mind.
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Borges was a master of the prose-poem. This book is proof.
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Read in July, 2008
kind of hit or miss, but very thought-provoking
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