Jorge Borges

My god, I can't get enough of The Library of Babel lately...

So far it's all I've had the good fortune of reading, but I'm going to order a copy of Labyrinths soon and dive into more of his catalog.

I also have some lectures he delivered at Harvard. What a brilliant man...


Library of Babel (English Translation):
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html

An Excellent Reading of Library of Babel by Akira Rabelais:
http://akirarabelais.com/borges/libraryofbabel.mp3


So what stories should I focus on next?
 

Kingsley

Member
Well, I know the titles in spanish...

"Ficciones" (fictions?), "El Aleph", "El libro de Arena" (the sand book?)
You will find great short stories there.

It's hard to imagine how to translate the spanish vocabulary Borges used so well to english. He dealed with language limits some times, he played mind games in some of his stories... Very creative. He was an avid reader till he became blind, so, his mind was the place and his world more than ever after that.
 

isaac_z

New member
ResidentAlien said:
What a brilliant man...

quite so, but i was a little disappointed in his critical writing. i read his introduction to Bartleby, The Scrivener while doing some research on that story, and while impressive in a literary sense, he didn't really say anything about the text.

but, that's why i don't read Borges for criticism - i'll stick to the wonderful labyrinths collection instead.
 
isaac_z said:
quite so, but i was a little disappointed in his critical writing. i read his introduction to Bartleby, The Scrivener while doing some research on that story, and while impressive in a literary sense, he didn't really say anything about the text.

but, that's why i don't read Borges for criticism - i'll stick to the wonderful labyrinths collection instead.


Good to hear. I just ordered Labyrinths the other day. :)
 
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