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Finzioni
Finzioni | Jorge L. Borges
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JORGE LUIS BORGES FICTIONS | Jorge Luis Borges
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Catsandbooks
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges
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1/5 ⭐️ I regret choosing this book for #FoodandLit Buddy Read 🇦🇷 I found it confusing and boring. Just not my type of book at all.

I hope anyone who read it enjoyed it more than I did.

Sapphire I did enjoy it, but I would have read it anyway because I had it and it harkens back to high school unfinished business for me. 2y
Sapphire I was surprised it was highlighted. It is a very niche taste. But hey! Exposure to new things - even really weird things is good right. Helps us appreciate what does work for us! 2y
Sapphire Also, to everyone who felt confused, I want to share - I think that is the point. He wants you to feel confused and disoriented as you struggle. He thought he was making labyrinth of words. 2y
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Catsandbooks @Sapphire well then he definitely succeeded in his goal cause I was rightly confused and frustrated! 2y
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I didn't get around to it this month. Perhaps I'll join in the confusion at a later date. 🤣 2y
Daisey @Sapphire I appreciate this perspective. I didn‘t read this one, but I did listen to Labyrinths, which contains at least a few of the same stories, and that is a reasonably good description of how I felt, somewhat lost in a maze of words. 2y
AnneCecilie Like everyone else I felt confused when I was reading most of these stories. I don‘t mind being confused as long as I get the conclusion, but for most of these I didn‘t get that either. The ones I liked the most in this collection, was the ones that was easier to follow. @Sapphire @Daisey @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick 2y
Sapphire Do we have anyone participating in #foodandlit who lives in or has lived in Argentina? I knew Borges was known for his tangled and erudite writing, but from the other book I read, Fever Dream, and the one I passed on from my TBR “final exam”, it seems this sort of Kafkaian surrealism is common in Argentinian literature, at least in the 20th century. 2y
Sapphire I had a coworker in the late 90s whose father was Argentinian and lived in Buenos Aires. The comments she made and stories she told about having to help her father untangle basic life problems left me with the impression that high crime and socio cultural structures made daily life challenging even for or especially for middle class or wealthier. (edited) 2y
Sapphire Granted I was young and didn‘t know a lot about even my own world yet, but simple banking seemed like a nightmare. I don‘t think hunky things were involved 2y
Catsandbooks @Sapphire Not to my knowledge do we have anyone in #FoodandLit who is from Argentina. I'm sure there are some who have visited, but @Texreader and @Butterfinger might know more! 2y
IndoorDame I didn‘t get to this one this month, and after reading everyone‘s reactions I‘m feeling a bit better about skipping it. 2y
Catsandbooks @IndoorDame yeah you didn't miss anything 2y
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Butterfinger
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Mehso-so

I think I get the theme. Maybe. Writers are gods who create worlds and Labyrinths. Or that all life is cyclical. I think Borges is more for philosophers and more erudite people than myself. Although, there were some stories that made me think of Hitchcock so I wonder if they collaborated. #FoodandLitBuddyRead @Catsandbooks @Texreader

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AnneCecilie
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Mehso-so

A lot of the stories went over my head and I didn‘t manage to follow what happened. From the afterward, I understand that might be the point and that I‘m not alone. I kept on reading in the hope that it would improve. My favorites were “The Shape of the Sword” and “Death and the Compass”, probably because they were easier to follow. This is the second time this month that I run into the tale about Martin Firrro.

#foodandlit #Argentina group read

Daisey I read his collection Labyrinths instead this month and felt much the same way. It also contained “Death and the Compass” which was my favorite of that collection. 2y
Butterfinger @Daisey I read Labyrinths a few years back for my first #LMPBC round and was wondering if some of the stories were in both because of the heavy theme of mazes in Ficciones. That confirmed it. 2y
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sarahbellum
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Panpan

I‘m certain that there was plenty in this book that I just didn‘t get or pick up on, but I‘m also certain that I wouldn‘t have cared if I had gotten it. Heretics and heresy just don‘t do it for me, I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️. Part of me is glad I read this seminal work, even if it ultimately wasn‘t for me. #foodandlit

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Catsandbooks
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#FoodandLit Buddy Read Check-in for Argentina 🇦🇷

How are y'all doing with Ficciones?
I admit I'm having a tough time with it. I feel like I understand what's happening on one page and then the next I'm lost. It feels very cerebral and almost like a review of other stories. Overall I'm just confused with each story so far. Am I missing something? Is it just a bad translation? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Sapphire So Borges is known for mail you feel unmoored so you are definitely not alone. I did feel like this collection of stories is commenting on each other. I felt like the whole thing was saying that all stories are “heresy”. If you google some of the characters and places you can see how it layers. I liked the true fiction more than the fake literary criticism ones, but they do fit together 2y
Sapphire I laughed out loud at the intro to the second part 2y
Sapphire Where Borges says that the next set are les torpidly developed. After looking up what torpid means, I was all - so he KNOWS his writing is laborious! 2y
Cinfhen I ended up skipping this one. It just didn‘t appeal to me. I then bailed on my next choice too. I‘m still looking for something to read 2y
AnneCecilie I‘m read it, but I‘m with on not understanding as much. I‘m confused. But I did enjoy the story “The Shape of the Sword” and its ending. 2y
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Sapphire
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges

The truth is that we all live by leaving behind

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Sapphire
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges

Century follows century, and things happen only in the present.

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Sapphire
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges
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Jack and I learned today that Borges had been the director of the National Library of Argentina. #dogsoflitsy #Argentina

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Sapphire
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How many current successful novels have been inspired by or play with this same concept? “The universe (which others call the library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps an infinite,…galleries”. I can think of at least two or threeI have read in the last couple years. #foodandlit2022 #argentina

Sapphire Piranesi 2y
Sapphire The Starless Sea 2y
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Butterfinger The Shadow of the Wind 2y
Sapphire According to the Editor of this collection, Borges was the director of the national library of Argentina for years. 2y
Catsandbooks Oh I'm excited to get to that one! 2y
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Sapphire
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges
Mehso-so

I am reading Borges in translation. I haven‘t read him since high school and that was in Spanish so the feeling of “mind bending” was both enhanced and detracted by my reading comprehension level. Seems like the connection of the short stories line up to Borges alleging that all fiction writers are in a sense heresiarchs. (Although none of the individual stories go so far yet). It‘s definitely an adventure. #argentina #foodandlit2022

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Sapphire
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges

This book of short stories is entitled “fictions”. Each of the stories, mentions heresiarchs as if they are a class of people that the reader would be familiar with. It‘s an interesting linkage between the stories that are some mind bending and others just another metaphorical stab at the concept of divine intervention. I am not generally a fan of short story collections, but this makes sense. As far as Borges can ever be said to “make sense”

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Sapphire
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This is lovely quintessential Borges

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Sapphire
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges

This quoted phrase feels like my work life now: “provoked a considerable reform whose complexities are not understood except by a handful of specialists “

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Sapphire
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges

“Plumbed the vicissitudes of terror and hope; . . . This notoriously delicious exhilaration”

vivastory I 💙Borges 2y
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Catsandbooks
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges
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February's #FoodandLit Buddy Read is Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges. This is a collection of short stories.

This is a casual read-at-your-own-pace buddy read. Anyone is welcome to join in! If you would like to be tagged in check-in posts please let me know!

IndoorDame I‘m in! I love Borges. 2y
AnneCecilie I‘m in. Will hopefully start next week 2y
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Catsandbooks @IndoorDame @AnneCecilie Yay! Glad you both are reading with me! 2y
tdrosebud I've got this on my list this month. I need to get it started. 2y
Catsandbooks @tdrosebud hooray! Luckily it's a short book so hopefully it reads quick! 2y
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Sapphire
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges
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I selected two titles for #Argentina the February prompt in #foodandlit2022 because I thought Borges might be dry and difficult. Turns out I found Fever Dream not as mood intense and promised, and I am LOVING the mind bending that is classic Borges. #dogsoflitsy

Texreader Yea I‘m skipping the Borges read. If you want fun and entertaining for Argentina I am loving 2y
Catsandbooks Happy to hear you're enjoying it! 2y
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Sapphire
Ficciones | Jorge Borges
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Been awhile since I had to look up a word in English from my reading.

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Catsandbooks
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges
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Hoping to get a bingo for my birthday month! 💝
#bookspinbingo

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Looks great!!! 2y
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LitsyEvents
Ficciones/ Fictions | Jorge Luis Borges
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IndoorDame I Love Borges! Excited to read with you guys next month! 2y
Catsandbooks Thanks for sharing! 2y
Texreader Whoohoo! Thanks for sharing! 2y
Jerdencon I have it downloaded - hoping to start it soon 2y
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pigiann
Finzioni | Jorge L. Borges
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Pickpick

Raccolta di racconti molto eterogenea, ma affascinante. Il migliore è senz'altro La biblioteca di Babele, che descrive un universo formato da una biblioteca infinita che contiene potenzialmente tutti i possibili libri del mondo.

SRWCF Ciao! È bello trovare un italiano su Litsy! 2y
pigiann @SRWCF ciao! Verissimo, siamo davvero pochi purtroppo 🙈 Infatti lo uso sempre in parallelo a Instagram e Goodreads, dove almeno ci sono più italiani 2y
SRWCF Si, capisco. Io sono americana ma mio marito è italiano. Ci siamo conosciuti a Genova e abbiamo vissuto lì per molti anni primo a trasferirci negli stati uniti. 2y
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Taylor
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Pickpick

There is no experience quite like reading Borges. So often I would finish a story and think, Okay, I know what it‘s about, I guess, but I don‘t know what he‘s SAYING.

Because figuring out what he‘s saying in his esoteric, layered narratives—that is the trick. And once you do, there is a rush of satisfaction that—like I said above—is unparalleled; it‘s when the work goes from being a fairly cool but aloof exposition, to a full on revelation.

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Taylor
Ficciones | Jorge Borges

The truth is that we all live by leaving behind; no doubt we all profoundly know that we are immortal and that sooner or later every man will do all things and know everything.

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Billypar
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges
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#7days7books
Day 7
Seven books that made a deep impression and changed me.

@Suet624 you're tagged if you want to play, along with anyone else who hasn't and is so inclined!

Cathythoughts Great pic ❤️ 4y
Billypar @Cathythoughts Thanks - needed something suitably strange for Borges. 4y
Suet624 Oh! I just saw you tagged me but it didn‘t come through as a notification! 4y
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Emilymdxn
Ficciones/ Fictions | Jorge Luis Borges
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Pickpick

Finished this for #mrbook1inamillion and absolutely loved it! Can‘t believe it took me this long to read. The people who say he‘s the master of the short story are not lying. I‘d love to study these or read some criticism of them, I feel like there‘s so much there that I didn‘t appreciate yet. I see now how many writers I love couldn‘t exist without Borges.

#litsypartyofone #24b4monday @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @Clwojick @MrBook

Billypar Glad you liked it! I can't wait to read more of his collections. 4y
Andrew65 Well done. 👏👏👏 4y
BarbaraBB I‘m impressed. I think it‘s a difficult read or am I wrong? 🤞 4y
MrBook Added! 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 4y
arubabookwoman For the first LMPBC one of our group chose Labyrinths by Borges, and reading it, I fell in love with Borges. If you haven‘t read it you need to do so soon! 4y
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Emilymdxn
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Manages about 2 hours 20 of reading yesterday - not bad for a full workday, evening out with my boyfriend then travelling back to my parents house for the weekend it was quite a busy one! Should manage more today. Very excited to be in a bathtub again, my new flat doesn‘t have a tub! #mrbook1inamillion

#litsypartyofone #24b4monday @MrBook @Alisnazzy @Lynnsoprano @Clwojick @TheReadingMachine @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @Rachel.Rencher @jb72

Andrew65 Can‘t beat a book and a bath! 4y
Lynnsoprano Enjoy! 4y
Clwojick 💝 💝 💝 4y
MrBook I‘ve got to read in the tub sometime. 😁 4y
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Emilymdxn
Ficciones/ Fictions | Jorge Luis Borges
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Made my start on #mrbook1inamillion challenge! Excited to be sharing this with you all I love group reading challenges like this.

1 hour reading this morning audiobook on way to work, gonna get another half hour in now on my lunch break 😊

#litsypartyofone #24b4monday @MrBook @Alisnazzy @Lynnsoprano @Clwojick @TheReadingMachine @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @Rachel.Rencher @jb72

Billypar Loved this collection 🖤 4y
jb72 Looks delicious! 4y
Lynnsoprano Glad you can join in the fun! 🎉❤️ 4y
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Clwojick MMm looks yummy! 4y
Andrew65 Good luck 😊👍 4y
MrBook I need to read that book 😁! Hey, I see pasta. 😎🙌🏻😙👌🏻 4y
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Emilymdxn
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“Buckley did not believe in God, yet because wanted to prove to the nonexistent God that mortals could conceive and shape a world.”

How have I not read Borges before??? This is so incredible

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Emilymdxn
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I‘ve finally managed to get back into meditating the last three or four days which is great news for me and my fitness challenge! I‘ve had a horrid cold that‘s put a dampener on a lot of things - you don‘t feel very spiritual when you‘re full of snot 🤷‍♀️ - but just did my fourth day running of meditation on gorgeous bankside and then some reading. Feel like I‘m back on track.

#bfcr4 @wanderinglynn @jessinikkip @Melmar @LauraJ @suzie.reads

wanderinglynn Way to go! 🙌🏻 Hope you‘re feeling better. 💚 4y
Suet624 Been struggling for 2 weeks now with an awful virus. I finally discovered NyQuil and had my first good night of sleep in weeks. 4y
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MySharonaK
Finzioni | Jorge L. Borges
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It‘s on one of the walls of our public library

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MrBook
Ficciones/ Fictions | Jorge Luis Borges
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2/2 of the replenishments for my #HispanicHeritageMonth Display 😊!

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksDisplays

DrexEdit In the Time of the Butterflies. Even when you know what's going to happen, it's a tense thriller as well as an intimate story of a family in the Dominican Republic during the Trujillo regime. 👍 5y
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aloslibrary
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Everyone need to read this... especially The Library of Babel.
4.8/5 😩👌❤️

vivastory Agreed 5y
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Billypar
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#DontCryforMeArgentina #WanderingJune
Turns out that Borges was not a fan of Evita or Juan Peron- interesting Wikipedia article describing their feud. He might be the only Argentine author I've read, but Cortazar is high on my list of authors to try.
@BarbaraBB @Cinfhen

BarbaraBB Borges is on mine! 5y
Liz_M Borges is amazing! 5y
MaGoose He's been on my TBR forever. I guess I need to move him up the list a bit. 🙄 5y
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gradcat Hmmm, I wonder why Borges wouldn‘t care for the Perons...let me count the ways...🤔 5y
Billypar @BarbaraBB @Liz_M @MaGoose I only read his shorter collection Ficciones, but I loved just about every story. I want to try Labyrinths next. 5y
Billypar @gradcat I know- one of those literary mysteries I guess 😉 5y
Suet624 Cortizar - Hopscotch was a favorite and a possible reread within the year. 5y
Billypar @Suet624 When I was at a bookshop in Montreal, I picked up Hopscotch, read the plot, flipped through it and kind of fell in book love at first sight. That copy was a little pricey but I plan on picking it up soon. 5y
Suet624 You noticed that you can read it all the way through and then Cortizar gives you another way of reading the story by reading chapters in a different order? Ingenious. Delicious. 5y
Billypar @Suet624 I don't think I knew that- love the concept though. 5y
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Faibka
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“Perhaps old age and fear deceive me, but I suspect that the human species -the only one- is nearing extinction and that the Library will endure: illuminated, lonely, infinite, perfectly still, armed with precious volumes, useless, incorruptible, secret.”

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Faibka “Quizá me engañen la vejez y el temor, pero sospecho que la especie humana -la única- está por extinguirse y que la Biblioteca perdurará: iluminada, solitaria, infinita, perfectamente inmóvil, armada de volúmenes preciosos, incorruptible, secreta.” 5y
Faibka @EmilyChristine I have a feeling that this might be a book you‘d enjoy :) especially this short story where I took the quote from (translation is mine, I‘m sure a professional translation is much better!) which is called “The Library of Babel”. It‘s quite surreal and the language is intricately beautiful and the true meaning or lack of is left for you to wonder upon as if trying to decipher a dream. Anyway... I recommend it! 5y
EmilyChristine @Faibka Thank you! I‘ll definitely add it to my list! 5y
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Faibka
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“To one of these gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or (more precisely) a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are hateful because they multiply and spread it.”

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consonantia
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges
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My Goodreads review is too long to fit here, alas! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2802451787

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DreesReads
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A collection of odd stories, all having to do with books (thus the title). The vocabulary, structure, and content of this book mean it‘s not an easy read, but I liked the oddness. Like a cross between Calvino and Mieville—but Borges came first. #intranslation #1001books #1000books #501books

Swe_Eva I looove Borges!! 5y
DreesReads @Swe_Eva this is my first Borges! I don‘t really know why I haven‘t read him before. He is very original! 5y
Swe_Eva @AudreyMorris He was my first foray into grownup fiction and it blew my mind that someone could write like that. 💜 5y
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Leniverse
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges

'In life, he suffered from a sense of unreality, as do so many Englishmen; dead, he is not even the ghostly creature he was then.'

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Leniverse
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I ordered from a bookseller called “reuse a book” (through Abe Books) and was bemused but thrilled to get a totally unrelated bookmark with my book. (Who doesn‘t love bonus bookmarks!) Then I looked closer and it seems the bookseller has a mutually beneficial deal with the Jane Austen Centre. Awesome. But I don‘t think I can use it with this book. 😂 Need to look through my bookmark collection for a better match. 🤓

LeahBergen Bookmarks MUST thematically match. 😆 5y
Leniverse @LeahBergen I know, right! 😆 I might just use the flaps of the dust jacket for this one. It's a slim enough volume for it. 5y
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DePaepe
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Just finished the first story in this collection. Highly imaginative as to be expected. On to the next.. #litsypartyofone

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Simona
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Collection of short stories, which are written in different styles/genres, but all of them revolve around labyrinths, infinity, death, dreams, memory ... they are glimpse in Borges‘ abstract reality - a world driven by imagination, human complexity and absurdity. I didn‘t understand all of them, their hidden meanings is too hidden in metaphors for me ... however, I was deeply seduced by his poetic language and by eccentricity of the stories.

Bklover Thanks for the recipe! looks yummy! 6y
rockpools Ooh! I'm sure I knew Borges was Argentinian really - I might actually be able to join you this month. 😊 6y
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Faibka So glad you liked Borges and yes, thank you for sharing the recipe! I‘m going to give it a try :) 6y
Simona @Bklover @Faibka It‘s a very rich and tasty stew and I used red lentil which is cooked in 10 minuets and the most important thing - without soaking!!! 6y
Simona @RachelO @Faibka First I read it in Slovenian translation and then in English, and both editions are with prologues of the translators ... I would be sooo lost without those explanations and ‘guidelines‘ 🤗 6y
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ofbooksandme
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My favorite book from Argentina is "Ficciones" (Fictions) by Jorge Luis Borges, one of the best writers of the 20th century in the world. Short stories, magical, mystical, about the universe, about literature, fantasy and fantastic.
Would recommend it to anyone who loves literature. (It's still baffling that he never got a Nobel)

#Whereintheuniverse Which is yours? Don't forget to tag me!

BarbaraBB Great post! Ficciones is on my TBR! 6y
ofbooksandme @BarbaraBB it's like something from another planet, you'll love it 6y
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Brie
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BookMaven407 Yes! 6y
merelybookish 👍👍 6y
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Chelsibno
Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges
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"The Circular Ruins" is one of my favorite short stories. #SouthAmericanWriters #FallIntoBooks @RealLifeReading

Billypar I've only read a short collection of his (included Circular Ruins) and they were all so good. Tlon, Uqbar..., Library if Babel, Garden of Forking Paths. I can't wait to read more. 7y
Billypar Oh, duh... It's the same one you tagged that I read- Ficciones- Litsy just has two versions.. 7y
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Blaire
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I've read pieces of this book, but need to give it another try when I have time to focus. Anyone tackled it? #southamericanauthors #tbr #fallintoreading

batsy On my TBR after @Billypar's blurb awhile back. Sounds fascinating. 7y
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Billypar
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These stories will definitely take you through the looking glass and make you feel #InsaneInTheBrain . Infinite libraries, scholarly analysis of non-existent lands, duplicating Don Quixote... In these stories Borges invites you into his brain, which clearly has some insanity to spare, but in the best possible way- a strange, dizzying, and pretty wonderful place. #90sInJuly @Robothugs @Cinfhen

saresmoore You're gonna talk me into reading all of the weird books, aren't you? 7y
batsy @saresmoore Yessssss... I wanna read this too 7y
Billypar @saresmoore Yes- my revenge for you getting me sucked back into House of Leaves...muahahaha 😄 7y
saresmoore Hahaha! That's fair, then. 7y
Cinfhen Very cool 😎 7y
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Brie
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These short stories were so strange and intricate. Each one had layers--or rather labyrinths--that made you want to read slowly and savor all the depths. Certain images kept popping up--mirrors, simulacrums, books, libraries. At times the narratives blurred fiction and reality. My favorites were "Death and the Compass", "The Circular Ruins", "The Library of Babel", "The South", "Funes, the Memorious", and "The Garden of Forking Paths."

vivastory Great review. I adore Borges. 7y
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"The goal that led him on was not impossible, though it was clearly supernatural: He wanted to dream a man. He wanted to dream him completely, in painstaking detail, and impose him upon reality."

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cerebrodegato
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I've had a few problems trying to upload images, but now it's solved and I'm coming with tons of books!

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He tenido problemillas intentando subir imágenes, ¡pero creo que está arreglado y vengo con montones de libros!

#northernlights #philippullman #HeartofDarkness #JosephConrad #Borges #1984 #Kafka #JaneEyre

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