Aduren's review
Borges: Selected Non-Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
Aduren's review
Borges: Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Aduren's review
rating:
recommended for: Everyone
Well I used t have all the book from Borges in Spanish, that was, until one of my boxes was lost when moving apartments. To my dismay the box that contain his books were lost. Alas the Aleph and other Stories managed to sneak to another box, but Labyrinths was lost forever and I can only hope it’s somewhere where the book can be read and not in a dumpster. The later faith would be a tragedy, the first an act of a comedic destiny.
I’ve read all of his publications in Spanish, and I am sure there are great translators out there but there are few writers that share the same knowledge of words and writing like Borges. Part of Borges depth lies in his ability to pick apart sentences. In his later days when he went blind friends use to read him what he wanted to read. His friends recalled it was very difficult to read him because “He would interrupt very often to make notes about the writing, he would say ‘Ha if he would have use this word instead of this one the whole meaning w...more
I’ve read all of his publications in Spanish, and I am sure there are great translators out there but there are few writers that share the same knowledge of words and writing like Borges. Part of Borges depth lies in his ability to pick apart sentences. In his later days when he went blind friends use to read him what he wanted to read. His friends recalled it was very difficult to read him because “He would interrupt very often to make notes about the writing, he would say ‘Ha if he would have use this word instead of this one the whole meaning w...more
