Lightsey's review
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook, 186)
by Jorge Luis Borges
Lightsey's review
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook, 186) by Jorge Luis Borges
Lightsey's review
rating:
Nearly done now. . . Borges reminds me of my high school friends, who were all obsessed with math, infinity, dream/reality, MC Escher, and so forth. I haven't really encountered people who talk about such things since high school; it seems we all grew up and became too involved in our lives to ponder whether those lives are real or not.
Aside from a few Poe-like excursions into noir (pondering narrator/main character screws up, gets shot at the end), I am very fond of this book.
A student reminded me of this book, which I'd read sometime in college. Borges lines up with all my current concerns about reading and writing, creation, etc. For example, "The Library of Babel," with its complete set of books containing all the possible combinations of letters, and the mad search for meaning that ensues. . . Occasionally he writes a clunkier detective story, but I still enjoy his imagination.
Aside from a few Poe-like excursions into noir (pondering narrator/main character screws up, gets shot at the end), I am very fond of this book.
A student reminded me of this book, which I'd read sometime in college. Borges lines up with all my current concerns about reading and writing, creation, etc. For example, "The Library of Babel," with its complete set of books containing all the possible combinations of letters, and the mad search for meaning that ensues. . . Occasionally he writes a clunkier detective story, but I still enjoy his imagination.
