Christopherseelie's review
Everything & Nothing
by Jorge Luis Borges
Christopherseelie's review
Everything & Nothing by Jorge Luis Borges
Christopherseelie's review
rating:
recommended for: World Lit fans
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 through context with the irreverent plot of a modern Spanish poet rewriting Don Quixote verbatim.
What it's like when Borges ponders: The Wall and the Books
-A story with no plot, but history. Borges essay-styled fiction explores the possible motivations and characterization of the Chinese Emporer under whose rein the Great Wall was constructed and all the books written before his rule were burned.
Portrait of the Artist: Borges and I
-A little thing. Borges does a Keatsian meander throug...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 through context with the irreverent plot of a modern Spanish poet rewriting Don Quixote verbatim.
What it's like when Borges ponders: The Wall and the Books
-A story with no plot, but history. Borges essay-styled fiction explores the possible motivations and characterization of the Chinese Emporer under whose rein the Great Wall was constructed and all the books written before his rule were burned.
Portrait of the Artist: Borges and I
-A little thing. Borges does a Keatsian meander throug...more
