Tag Archives: Borges

This one hit home, though perhaps it’s not something to relate to willingly.  On a personal level, I see the value to a randomness over which there could be no reasonable control.  Why?  Because organization in many ways to many … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve read a few paragraphs of the next story in Borges’ anthology and yet come back around to this story. Patterns, looking for patterns.  I come up with circles: birth and death and rebirth, sleep and wakefulness in an endless … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve read this short story twice and still feel that I’m missing something and just don’t have it quite right. The story is about a man who travels to a site of what was once a sacred spot dedicated to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The amazing audacity of it: the concept of rewriting Cervantes’ Don Quixote exactly word for word without referencing, and yet come up with different meaning.  This is the premise of Borges’ story. For me the glory is not in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Hmmm.  Have you ever read something and realized that you missed the whole point of it? This story was easier to follow than the previous, and yet I know I’m just not getting it.   The story line seems simple enough, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This one will definitely be re-read, likely when I finish the rest of the stories in this book.  Borges would be someone I would definitely love to sit and spend a few hours with.  That is, if he spoke English … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I don’t think you can read Borges without the man himself being within the story.  In this particular short story, he places himself there. A writer to a fellow writer: The whole affair happened some five years ago.  Bioy Casares … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just halfway through this first story in the Borges collection, but I can say it is quite intriguing.  Borges is concept-driven I suspect, and as he twists his own mind in wonderment, he enjoys doing the same to the readers. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Two at once this time, just because if I’m not going to be writing, then it’s the time to enjoy diversity and Borges fits that bill. Continue reading →