AUTHOR: Jorge Luis Borges
READ: November
THOUGHTS: Remembering starting to read this out of nowhere because I felt depressed and thought that Borges would lift my spirits...it worked! Borges is just...I don't know, I feel like I can't even quite fully articulate why I think he is one of my favorite authors, quite possibly my favorite (!!). These short pieces are all very memorable, all written with the Borgesian penache, fluidity of style, bookwormism (all things I admire!). Will probably read the rest of the Borges ouerve in the next two months or so. Some of my favorite stories here (and elsewhere) read like a mixture of essays on theology, philosophy, mystical poetic aspirations, and expeditions into voids in time, memory, history, etc. Really like his focus on writing invented biographical information on the artists of antiquity or whatever. If I had to make a softball team out of 20th century writers I think I would appoint Borges as the coach.
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