Brodie's review
A Universal History of Iniquity (Penguin Classics)
by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley
Brodie's review
A Universal History of Iniquity (Penguin Classics) by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley
Brodie's review
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recommended for: readers who read to the limit
A great collection of character sketches of villains, impostors, and scoundrels. Borges announces in the preface that these are not psychological sketches, however. So, we do not learn about why the infamous are infamous as such. But the stories stretch the limits of the believable, of what is credible and incredible. The delight and amuse and disgust all at once.
