Borges Jorge Luis, one of the most imaginative writers I have encountered, could have been a mathematician, a physicist or a philosopher. Borges’s Labyrinths (1962) is divided into three parts; fiction, essays, and parables. All three sections consist …
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Borges Jorge Luis, one of the most imaginative writers I have encountered, could have been a mathematician, a physicist or a philosopher. Borges’s Labyrinths (1962) is divided into three parts; fiction, essays, and parables. All three sections consist …
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The beginning of the readings within Borges’ The Labyrinth drew upon the ideas of many other texts, and I think the way Borges progressed from text to text reflects his philosophy surrounding the uncertainty of their meanings. Besides his second-guessing of the texts he had just wrote about, and constant revisions of his thoughts on […]
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I found Jorge Luis Borges to be a great author with a unique style and mastery of language; “Labyrinth and Selected Stories” very well showcases his imaginative and thought-provoking writing. I found Identity to be a major theme of this coll…
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I found Jorge Luis Borges to be a great author with a unique style and mastery of language; “Labyrinth and Selected Stories” very well showcases his imaginative and thought-provoking writing. I found Identity to be a major theme of this coll…
week5. labyrinths – I did not understand this book. It was quite dense and while I got bits and pieces every once in a while, it was difficult to keep my attention. Halfway through I had to switch to an audiobook because I was getting a tension headache from trying to keep up with the […]
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Let me discuss a novel, but not just any novel. One whose narrator would “disfigure the facts and indulge in various contradictions which would permit a few readers — very few readers — to perceive an atrocious or banal reality…” (17).Labyrinths – as…
Let me discuss a novel, but not just any novel. One whose narrator would “disfigure the facts and indulge in various contradictions which would permit a few readers — very few readers — to perceive an atrocious or banal reality…” (17).Labyrinths – as…
Hello Blog readers, This week’s novel was Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges. Im not going to lie, I didn’t entirely understand what I was reading, but that is precisely what labyrinth means. As google defines, labyrinth is “a complicated irre…
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Hello Blog readers, This week’s novel was Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges. Im not going to lie, I didn’t entirely understand what I was reading, but that is precisely what labyrinth means. As google defines, labyrinth is “a complicated irre…
