This week I decided to take the advice of my peers this week and alternate the ways in which I normally approach the weekly blogs: to watch the lecture first, then read the book. I think I’ll be doing this from now on as I was able to grasp on to the central themes of […]
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The reading this week, Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges was a collection made up of short stories and essays. I found there to be pros and cons to this type of reading. One on hand, I enjoyed that it could be read easily in pieces. Due to how short each writing was, you could easily […]
While this week’s reading was not as inscrutable as last week’s poetry could be (especially in translation), its surreal quality made it almost as difficult to draw conclusions from. When I first started this, I mentioned that the only impression I had of Latin American literature was magical realism. This week’s text definitely fulfilled that […]
Reading Labyrinths by Luis Borges this week was certainly an interesting piece of work to follow. I first began by reading the text as I was interested in getting a brief understanding of what it was about before watching the lecture, however after the…
Reading Labyrinths by Luis Borges this week was certainly an interesting piece of work to follow. I first began by reading the text as I was interested in getting a brief understanding of what it was about before watching the lecture, however after the…
This week’s readings brought back a lot of childhood memories, as my grandfather used to read Borges’ short stories to me and my siblings when we were younger. I would be lying if I said I remembered which stories he used to read to us as I was very little and mostly fell asleep as […]
Truth be told, this was not the book for me. I disliked this one as much as I enjoyed the previous one. I definitely see the playful aspect of the book, and I can see why other people have enjoyed it – having read some of the blogs that are alrea…
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Truth be told, this was not the book for me. I disliked this one as much as I enjoyed the previous one. I definitely see the playful aspect of the book, and I can see why other people have enjoyed it – having read some of the blogs that are alrea…
This week’s reading of Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges was not the most pleasant experience for me. Out of all the pieces of literature we have read so far, this has got to be the least favorite. I would say 80% of the time, I honestly did not know what Borges was necessarily talking about. […]
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I am convinced that the writings of Jorge Luis Borges—an Argentinian writer infamous for his playful nature and toying with language—are not merely a method to be reckoned with in the literary canon, but also a turbulent force which makes us question our expectations when approaching future literature as a whole. The writing itself seems […]
Posted in Blogs, Borges | Tagged with postmodernism/postmodernity, the real/reality
