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kami5 's review for:
Labyrinths
by Jorge Luis Borges
Magical realist stories that not only edge on fantasy writing but delve right into it and raise the standard for all good stories of that ilk as how to become an example of literature. In his essays, Borges refuses to make literature a game of classification and to reject the library of typewriting monkeys for "books are not isolated beings, they are an axis of innumerable relationships."
I didn't love all of his short stories but the ones that helped form bonds with me are: The Garden of Forking Paths, The Circular Ruins, The Library of Babel, Three Versions of Judas, and The Immortal. One's appreciation will rest on the relationships that one makes with the stories.
I loved his essays; they are excellent thought problems that lets the mind off its earthly roots and spin around a little, munching on the lines that he throws out there on subjects as far ranging as quantum mechanics, the nature of God, and literary theory. Definitely an unexpected highlight.
I didn't love all of his short stories but the ones that helped form bonds with me are: The Garden of Forking Paths, The Circular Ruins, The Library of Babel, Three Versions of Judas, and The Immortal. One's appreciation will rest on the relationships that one makes with the stories.
I loved his essays; they are excellent thought problems that lets the mind off its earthly roots and spin around a little, munching on the lines that he throws out there on subjects as far ranging as quantum mechanics, the nature of God, and literary theory. Definitely an unexpected highlight.