I studied some of Borges’s works in high school, so it was nice to revisit them again. I always enjoyed his writing and the way he plays with reality. He explores time, memory, language, and perception through his short stories. One of my favorite stories was “Funes the Memorious.” I always wish I had a […]
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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…
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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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 […]
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…
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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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…
