At first, I was intrigued by this week’s reading simply from its title. I thought I knew what a labyrinth was, but I looked it up to see what google described it as – a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find…
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At first, I was intrigued by this week’s reading simply from its title. I thought I knew what a labyrinth was, but I looked it up to see what google described it as – a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find…
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This week we read “Labyrinths”, a collection of stories written by Jorge Luis Borge. Personally, I quite enjoyed these stories as they had a profound impact on me and really made me reflect and think about the realities we create within our world. One story that stood out to me was The Library of Babel. […]
The anxiety I have felt reading this books is a unique experience I have yet to have elsewhere. Truth to be told, I have no idea what’s going on in most of the stories, and that isn’t resulting from a lack of trying, I quite literally just cannot tell what is going on most of […]
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This week’s reading was a different experience for me, and I did not enjoy it as much as I have with the previous books. Luis Borge’s collection of stories were at many times very confusing and hard to follow. Similar to the title, his work put my mind into a maze and made it feel […]
Borges’s collection of short stories were disconnected, fluid and playful. But for me, this collection took a lot of work to grasp the complete understanding. I still do not fully understand his work, but I think that is the point. Borges titled his co…
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Borges’s collection of short stories were disconnected, fluid and playful. But for me, this collection took a lot of work to grasp the complete understanding. I still do not fully understand his work, but I think that is the point. Borges titled his co…
Hey everyone! I hope all is well, This week’s reading was “Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges. Although I recognized I was trying to read an assortment of short tales, they seemed to be linked separately in a different manner, leaving me dubio…
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Hey everyone! I hope all is well, This week’s reading was “Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges. Although I recognized I was trying to read an assortment of short tales, they seemed to be linked separately in a different manner, leaving me dubio…
It is practically impossible to condense everything I think about Jorge Luis Borges, in competition with James Joyce as my favourite author, into 500 words. The man can do more in five pages than most writers could do with their entire lives; nearly everything I have read by him has left my mind swimming and […]
