Jorge Luis Borges
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| Original Title: | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings |
| ISBN: | 0811200124 (ISBN13: 9780811200127) |
| Edition Language: | Multiple languages |
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Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: "Borges is a great writer who has composed only little essays or short narratives. Yet they suffice for us to call him great because of their wonderful intelligence, their wealth of invention, and their tight, almost mathematical style."Labyrinths is a representative selection of Borges' writing, some forty pieces drawn from various books of his published over the years. The translations are by Harriet de Onis, Anthony Kerrigan, and others, including the editors, who have provided a biographical and critical introduction, as well as an extensive bibliography.
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| Title | : | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings |
| Author | : | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | English/Spanish Expanded ed. |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | 1964 by New Directions (first published 1962) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Short Stories. Classics. Literature. Magical Realism. Fantasy. Philosophy |
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This City is so horrible that its mere existence and perdurance, though in the midst of a secret desert, contaminates the past and the future and in some way even jeopardizes the stars. As long as it lasts, no one in the world can be strong or happy. I do not want to describe it; a chaos of heterogeneous words, the body of a tiger or a bull in which teeth, organs and heads monstrously pullulate in mutual conjunction and hatred can (perhaps) be approximate images. In Labyrinths, Borges meandersReading. No, thought. No, reality. Or, fiction? Fiction. But also time, and faith, and metonymy. How close is the instantaneous you to the you in context with time, space, and the integration over the infinite?What? What.The what is the period of time wherein I grew fed up with the knowing and began to contemplate the thinking, unknown and yet rather persistent seeing as it continues to niggle at me. Knowing helps, of course, in the foundations of common thought from which propagates
Jorge Luis Borges didnt know if he existed.Why does it disturb us that the map be included in the map and the thousand and one nights in the book The Thousand and One Nights? Why does it disturb us that Don Quixote be a reader of the Quixote and Hamlet a spectator of Hamlet? I believe I have found the reason: the inversions suggest that if the characters of a fictional work can be readers or spectators, we, its readers or spectators, can be fictitious. In 1833, Carlyle observed that the history
My first Borges book, or shall I say, "My first Borges experience!"Labyrinths is broken down to three sections: Fictions, Essays, and Parables. It starts complicated enough with the first story, and despite the false appearance to grow simpler, it gets more complicated as the book progresses. These are not short stories; these are conundrums blending fact, fiction, reality, and dreams. I cannot begin to fathom the amount of research that went to his stories, as even today, with the World Wide
One Man's Search for Divine Truth2 February 2018 Phi Phi Island. This is another of those book that a friend's Goodreads' review caught my interest, and imagine my surprise when I discovered it sitting on my shelf. Normally, once I have read the review, and marked the book as 'to read' I generally forget about them, namely because there are simply too many books on my too read list to be able to remember when I am browsing a bookshop. Okay, I could always whip out my phone and have a look at
Mind-blowingly awesome. I only wish that for the first book that I read of Borges that it was either all short stories or all essays; I had difficulty making the transition from the last story to the first essay because the lyrical cadence of his writing style made his beautifully written essays seem almost fictive. The parables at the very end of the compilation were the cherries on top. Borges' love of all things Quixote makes me want to hunker down with that book and read, re-read, and
Unlimited Stars/5. This is IT, this is The Writer next to which any other pales in comparison. This is The One I have been searching for my entire life, this is the One I thought too extraordinary to exist. The BBC, in declaring Borges the most important writer of the 20th century, declares "reading the work of Jorge Luis Borges for the first time is like discovering a new letter in the alphabet, or a new note in the musical scale." That is a vast understatement. Reading Borges is like
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