“Oh God, I could be bounded by a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space.”Hamlet II:2 (quoted by Borges, in epigraph The Aleph)Borges, my blind king of infinite space and limitless imagination, published these 17 stories in 1949. The anchor story, “The Aleph,” describes a point in sp...
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, this book is divided in three parts; FICTION, ESSAYS and PARABLES. Basically all this three sections comprises of STORIES OF IDEAS with the blend fact and fiction. Jorge Luis Borges seeks neither truth nor likelihood; he seeks astonishment by using metaphysics a...
( Note: This is an article I wrote in 2009 to mark the 110th birth Anniversary of Borges. Therefore, some of the stories I cite here may not belong to this collection. I thought to post it here as this book is the most cited. If you plan to buy a book of Borges, buy this one or Labyrinth and oth...
You who read me—are you certain you understand my language?Imagine you are watching a highly recommended, multiple awards winning, foreign-language film- it's everything you expected it to be, then, suddenly, the subtitles stop working- how annoying! But you are hooked; you can't stop watching– w...
Like its sister book Gangs of Chicago, Gangs of New York is an anecdotal history of the New York underworld in the 19th century from its nascence in the 1820's and 30's up until the the end of Tammany Hall and the corruption that sustained gang life as a New York institution. It's a history popul...
I can’t help smiling just picturing the two lords of literary misrule, Borges and Casares, writing together. imagining them bursting into laughter every time they found another trick to bold a situation, a character, a figure of speech until it is reduced to mere caricature. Or looking for anothe...
"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing." Oscar WildeExercises in Style These stories are fascinating exercises in style.They effectively document the development of Borges' style at a time when "he was a shy sort of man who could not bring himself to write short...
cross-posted at booklikes and the mo-centric universe. originally posted in 2010. at first blush, i was excited to find this anthology because nothing would suit me better than to sit at Jorge Luis Borges' knee, and have him tell what his favourite stories were, or even have him read them to me. ...
Este volumen reune dos muestras mas de la fecunda y feliz colaboracion entre Jorge Luis Borges y Adolfo Bioy Casares. Parodia dentro de la parodia, "Un modelo para la muerte" -relato de intriga que se inserta explicitamente en el mismo universo que el de los reunidos en "Seis problemas para don I...
I found the book in a dusty used book shop and was halfway through before I smacked my forehead and realized that it is perfect accompaniment reading for articles on Borges’s widow’s case accusing Pablo Katchadjian of plagiarism for elaborating on The Aleph by adding about 5,600 more words to Bor...
En 1940 Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares y Silvina Ocampo realizaron la Antologia de la literatura fantastica, que tuvo un indudable impacto en la literatura latinoamericana. Lectores voraces que buscaron siempre el deslumbramiento, el azoro, la sorpresa; los dos primeros continuaron la bus...
"Не querido ser fiel, еn estos ejercicios de ciego -dijo en una ocasión Jorge Luis Borges refiriéndose a los relatos incluidos en El libro de arena-, al ejemplo de Wells: la conjunción del estilo llano, a veces casi oral, у de un argumento imposible." El propio autor reconoce la singularidad de u...
Caracterizan las paginas de "El hacedor" el cruce de generos (relatos, ensayos у poemas) у la diversidad tematica. Homero у Dante alternan con Rosas у Facundo; la fantasia que inventa laberintos ineditos, con la cronica de sucesos aparentemente triviales pero cargados de insospechadas significaci...
Escrito con algún resabio ultraísta y bajo el influjo de su regreso a Argentina tras los años vividos en Europa, este libro anticipa con nitidez la obra futura de Borges. En sus páginas ya están las metáforas clásicas, la adjetivación asombrosa, el incipiente planteo metafísico, la precisión verb...
Brillante en la forma, acerada y precisa en el concepto, rotunda en su expresión, la poesía de Jorge Luis Borges corre parejas con su genial obra narrativa. Este primer volumen de los tres que en esta «Biblioteca de autor» ocupa su Obra poética -que se presenta ordenada cronológicamente-, recoge ...
In epilogo alle rivelatrici pagine dell'Artefice, Jorge Luis Borges pose una assai citata sua metafora: "Un uomo si propone il compito di disegnare il mondo. Trascorrendo gli anni, popola uno spazio con immagini di provincie, di regni, di montagne, di baie, di navi, d'isole, di pesci, di dimore, ...
Do you think pleasure is the main purpose of literature, if it can be said to have a purpose? BORGES: Well, pleasure, I don’t know, but you should get a kick out of it, no? BURGIN: Yes. BORGES: Well, if you allow me to attempt slang, yes I think that should be so. You know I’m a professor of Engl...
The stamp and the envelope deceived her at first; then the unfamiliar handwriting made her uneasy. Nine or ten lines tried to fill up the page; Emma read that Mr. Maier had taken by mistake a large dose of veronal and had died on the third of the month in the hospital of Bagé. A boarding-house fr...