After reading the first few pages of the book, I must admit that I felt unsure of the path the story was taking. Perhaps I was extra tired while beginning the book but I had trouble following the relevance of the man in the mirror, and the passage that…
After reading the first few pages of the book, I must admit that I felt unsure of the path the story was taking. Perhaps I was extra tired while beginning the book but I had trouble following the relevance of the man in the mirror, and the passage that…
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As much as it pains to say this, I legitimately enjoyed reading the collection of Jorge Luis Borges’ short stories in Labyrinths, with one glaring exception that I will address soon. However, before I discuss the negatives that I found in Borges’ work, I should appropriately point out what Borges’ does right in his stories, […]
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Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges was my least favourite read so far. I recognise the complexity that was added by merging and confusing genres the practice also drastically took away from the reader’s experience. About half of the pieces frustratingly felt like philosophical wafflings framed by a vague plot-like narrative. I found that this meant …
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 […]
