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A review by spindleshanks22
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
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3.5
A perfect and succinct description of Borges’ works can be found in his own words within the short story "August 25, 1983."
His stories and fables are filled with “…labyrinths, knives, the man who thinks he’s an image, the reflection that thinks it’s real, the tiger that stalks in the night, the battles that are in one’s blood… Not to mention false recollections, the doubleness of symbols, the long catalogs, the skilled handling of prosaic reality, the imperfect symmetries that critics so jubilantly discover, the not always apocryphal quotations.”
I enjoyed his more fantastical tales the most. Some of my favorites were:
“The Circular Ruins”, “The Shape of the Sword”, “The Secret Miracle”, “The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths”, “Funes, His Memory”
A perfect and succinct description of Borges’ works can be found in his own words within the short story "August 25, 1983."
His stories and fables are filled with “…labyrinths, knives, the man who thinks he’s an image, the reflection that thinks it’s real, the tiger that stalks in the night, the battles that are in one’s blood… Not to mention false recollections, the doubleness of symbols, the long catalogs, the skilled handling of prosaic reality, the imperfect symmetries that critics so jubilantly discover, the not always apocryphal quotations.”
I enjoyed his more fantastical tales the most. Some of my favorites were:
“The Circular Ruins”, “The Shape of the Sword”, “The Secret Miracle”, “The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths”, “Funes, His Memory”