Tom's review
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook)
by Jorge Luis Borges
Tom's review
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook) by Jorge Luis Borges
Tom's review
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Borges writes in a world apart from the rest of humanity. Each story is like a cyanide capsule: tiny, seemingly innocuous, but packed with an irreversible potency that will annihilate what you once considered your own mind.
This collection gives a healthy selection from most of the Borges's work, with short stories, essays, parables, and even a poem. The only downside I would say is that book opens with Borges's most stunning stories. While this choice literally blew me out of the water (seriously, I was in a bath tub at the time and I jumped from excitement), it left one with the feeling that Borges was capable of more. The rest of the works are superb, too, but the first several stories are by far the best written by Borges, or anyone.
This collection gives a healthy selection from most of the Borges's work, with short stories, essays, parables, and even a poem. The only downside I would say is that book opens with Borges's most stunning stories. While this choice literally blew me out of the water (seriously, I was in a bath tub at the time and I jumped from excitement), it left one with the feeling that Borges was capable of more. The rest of the works are superb, too, but the first several stories are by far the best written by Borges, or anyone.
