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Antonio Gallo
May 13, 2025 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
T. S. Eliot ebbe a dire che "human kind cannot bear too much reality". Gli uomini, è vero, hanno bisogno di andare oltre la realtà. Ecco perchè scrivono e leggono racconti e romanzi. Hanno bisogno di "fiction", come dicono gli inglesi: la finzione. Dal latino "fingere", creare, qualunque cosa inventata, una persona, una condizione, un fatto, un evento, un luogo. Un termine che oggi nel mondo contemporaneo tocca tutti i mezzi della comunicazione, dai libri ai giornali, dal cinema alla TV, dal tea ...more
marianne
Mar 03, 2020 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
What I love about Borges is how he manages to intertwine mysticism, suspense and some riff on a philosophical or intellectual concept into his stories. What if the universe was just a huge, endless library? Or what if there existed a person who could remember every single detail of the past, down to how every droplet in a cloud moved on a specific day? I loved reading these stories - it felt like I was doing laps in a playground in his rich, creative mind.

Stylistically, Borges is a master story
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