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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
What is divine, terrible, and
incomprehensible is to know oneself immortal.
Borges has always been there for me. That strange name I encountered a lifetime ago in a book about nihilism. The marvel of those stories, that surfeit of wisdom. The different configurations and yet I return to these stories like the coins and mirrors in the tales themselves. The infinite pairings: barbarians and those that go native. The theologians and the cyclical. The gauchos and the poets. It is the sly tales of reve ...more
incomprehensible is to know oneself immortal.
Borges has always been there for me. That strange name I encountered a lifetime ago in a book about nihilism. The marvel of those stories, that surfeit of wisdom. The different configurations and yet I return to these stories like the coins and mirrors in the tales themselves. The infinite pairings: barbarians and those that go native. The theologians and the cyclical. The gauchos and the poets. It is the sly tales of reve ...more
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