Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borgesas most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her fatheras akiller, a and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in "The Maker," which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.
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圖書標籤: 小說 阿根廷 JorgeLuisBorges Borges 魔幻現實主義 英文原版 英文 短篇
I was so lost in the eponymous story, but it was so captivating. The framing of the encounter of the infinite list of things through the letter Alef is the death of a friend. Benjamin's storyteller mentioned death is the sanction of a storyteller. The list of words resembles the display of ideas in Benjamin's in the epistemo-critical prologue.
評分how the worlds and dreams one has witnessed die with him, and yet how they are relived across a gulf of time, distance and culture. how the dimensions beyond the four we are acquainted with twist and mystify our lives and histories. how closest resemblances engender exotic imaginations and how wildest imaginations belie striking resemblances.
評分上個星期夢裏都是aristotle的石膏臉 很可怕
評分how the worlds and dreams one has witnessed die with him, and yet how they are relived across a gulf of time, distance and culture. how the dimensions beyond the four we are acquainted with twist and mystify our lives and histories. how closest resemblances engender exotic imaginations and how wildest imaginations belie striking resemblances.
評分(隻看瞭Deutsches Requiem... 難受 之後有空補 all men are born either Aristotelians or Platonists...
The Aleph and Other Stories 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載