The Aleph

[poliphilo]

Borges is chiefly valued for his earliest stories, but I find the later ones- collected in the Aleph- much more satisfactory. The excellent ideas came early; artistic control was more slowly achieved. The Aleph is a beautiful book, a meditation on the themes of time and identity, story echoing story through the shuffling and dealing out of a wicked pack of images- labyrinths, doubles, tigers.  The early stories are clever, ingenious, mind-stretching, the later stories melancholy and profound. 

Comments

[amritarosa.livejournal.com]

I am going to check The Aleph out from the library, thank you for the pointer.

Also, thanks to the pointer to Stephen Fry's blog :)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've never been a big fan of Fry's- I think he spreads himself too thin- but that's a great article.

[amritarosa.livejournal.com]

He seems to mainly talk about gadgets he's bought on that blog, otherwise.

Ah well. Still, thanks!