君子不器
Barth Meets Borges in the Funhouse “It was about this time when I carne across the writings of the great Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, whose temper was so wedded to the short story form, that like Chekhov, he never wrote a novel, and whose unorthodox brilliance transformed the short story form. Writers Iearn from the…
Borges on the Couch
Borges on Life and Death
‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ – Jorge Luis Borges full text pdf // 11/21/2018, 7:30am “The noun is formed by an accumulation of adjectives. They do not say “moon,” but rather “round airy-light on dark” or “pale-orange-of-the-sky” or any other such combination. In the example selected the mass of adjectives refers to a real…
Nadine Bornholt : Numbers in Jorge Luis Borges’ “Death and the Compass” “Jorge Luis Borges once claimed about his detective story “Death and the Compass” that it is the most kabbalistic narration he had ever written, and several scholars have pointed to the direct links to the Kabbalah in that fiction.(1) The kabbalistic way of…