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In spite of borges s belief that people cannot understand the chaotic world, he continually attempted to do so in his writing. Tlon, uqbar, orbis tertius by jorge luis borges from labyrinths. Jorge luis borges 1951, by grete stern by grete stern 19041999. Best fiction books are always available here the largest online library. He won the coveted formentor prize in the year 1961 followed by the jerusalem prize in the year 1971. Fictions is perhaps the single most mysterious and extraordinary collection of short stories written this century. T borges and i by jorge luis borges, translated by james e. What borges offered his readers was a philosophy, an ethical system, a method but these words are too mechanical for the art of reading that is to say, for the craft of. He was one of the first authors to mix high culture with low. A central image in borges s work is the labyrinth, a mental and poetic construct, that he considered a universe in miniature, which human beings build and therefore believe they control but which nevertheless traps them.
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