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Jorge Luis Borges - convening thread
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - with spoilers
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“Anything can drive a person insane if that person cannot manage to put it out of their mind” – even… “a map of Hungary”! Obsession is the unifying theme of virtually all these stories, which is apt, because I’m beginning to be a trifle obsessed myself. It is perhaps most central to The Zahir.
I have the Collected Fictions (with copious translator's notes), but am splitting my review of that into its components, listed in publication order: Collected Fictions - all reviews. This is the fourth, pu ...more
I have the Collected Fictions (with copious translator's notes), but am splitting my review of that into its components, listed in publication order: Collected Fictions - all reviews. This is the fourth, pu ...more
To like borges, is to like books, labyrinths and the enigmas. There is this elegant erudition which brings back us to essential. The world is a library, that of Buenos Aires.
My preferred short novel is the immortality. A conqueror like Alexandre intended to speak of people which draw his immortality from the river which crosses their city. He spend a long time to find them. This is a big deception. These people live as animals the river is a dirty brook.
The conqueror drinks water of the brook. ...more
My preferred short novel is the immortality. A conqueror like Alexandre intended to speak of people which draw his immortality from the river which crosses their city. He spend a long time to find them. This is a big deception. These people live as animals the river is a dirty brook.
The conqueror drinks water of the brook. ...more
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