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I was reading this exact passage aloud this very afternoon. It's Borges at his funniest! He's a stand out among the greats, surpassing Joyce, Marquez, Saramago

by bhickey 13y ago

I was reading this exact passage aloud this very afternoon. It's Borges at his funniest! He's a stand out among the greats, surpassing Joyce, Marquez, Saramago and Solzhenitsyn. There's a pervasive magic to his writing. The prose equals the subject. It reminds me of the best of Dostoevsky or Bulgakov's trial before Pilate.

chevreuil 13y ago
> It's Borges at his funniest Exactly. My feeling in the first pages of Fictions was : is it some kind of joke ? For those who read the House of Leaves, it's good to know that Danielewski took a lot of inspiration from Borges (among other things). If I recall correctly The Garden of Forking Paths is very similar in its purpose and construction.