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A review by savaging
Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges
5.0
I admire Borges' ability to craft a plot, but maybe that's because the Borges story always cracks a little bit at the end, he always has the urge to take it all back and say Maybe this was a dream, maybe it was something happening far away and at another time than I've just said.
Dreamtigers is entirely cracks, notes, fragments. Dreams and recantings and odes to toenails. It's the best Borges I've ever read.
As an example: "Parable of the Palace," tells the story of a poet being shown an infinite palace, and afterward speaking, in a single stanza or line or word, such a perfect description of it the emperor puts him to death for having robbed him of something. Borges ends:
"Such legends, of course, are simply literary fictions. The poet was the emperor's slave and died a slave; his composition fell into oblivion because it merited oblivion, and his descendants still seek, though they shall never find, the word for the universe."
Dreamtigers is entirely cracks, notes, fragments. Dreams and recantings and odes to toenails. It's the best Borges I've ever read.
As an example: "Parable of the Palace," tells the story of a poet being shown an infinite palace, and afterward speaking, in a single stanza or line or word, such a perfect description of it the emperor puts him to death for having robbed him of something. Borges ends:
"Such legends, of course, are simply literary fictions. The poet was the emperor's slave and died a slave; his composition fell into oblivion because it merited oblivion, and his descendants still seek, though they shall never find, the word for the universe."