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The Conspirators
"That joyous recognition, which seems to obey the tradition of classical tragedy, should be the crown of this story, leaving happiness assured (or at least more than possible) for the three persons of the tale—the true mother, the apocryphal and obliging son, and the conspirator repaid for the providential apotheosis of his industry. But Fate (for such is the name that we give the infinite and unceasing operation of thousands of intertwined causes) would not have it."
(From A Universal History of Iniquity, by Jorge Luis Borges)
Raphus Press proudly presents The Conspirators (A Borgean Tribute to Jorge Luis Borges), a collection of short stories in honor of Borges. Here we have complex reconstructions and ferocious reconfigurations of the usual mazes, daggers, and conspirators of that Argentine author.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was an author who not only represented the best of Argentine (and Latin American) fiction in the twentieth century, but followed the fate of some of his inspirers and became, perhaps against his will, a national hero of his country, occupying a mythical zone. Curiously, this mythical status extrapolated the borders of Argentina and the name "Borges" became universally associated with fantastic literature, labyrinths, mirrors, erudition, books.
But Becoming a myth has its drawbacks: the loss of depth when it comes to details. Borges, a man of conservative thinking (in political terms), appreciated the revolutionary Louis-Auguste Blanqui, the grandfather of Leninism. Indeed, in his fictions and poetry, there are innumerable heretics, counterfeiters, villainous, conspirators, indicating a very complex notion of reality outside the conventional axes of conservative morality. Reactivate such paradoxes - this is the quest of our collection!
For this purpose, we have an extraordinary myriad of authors whose unbridled imagination can conjure up infinite new labyrinths, to the liking of Borges: Mark Valentine and John Howard, Thomas Philips, Jonathan Wood, Rhys Hughes, Justin Isis, Stephan Friedman and some few surprises. Some of them in their first collaboration with the Raphus Press, also embarking on the search for a kind of imaginary author, who is perhaps the savage, Argentine God, who imagined the hallucinatory reality that surrounds us as a perpetual maze.
(From A Universal History of Iniquity, by Jorge Luis Borges)
Raphus Press proudly presents The Conspirators (A Borgean Tribute to Jorge Luis Borges), a collection of short stories in honor of Borges. Here we have complex reconstructions and ferocious reconfigurations of the usual mazes, daggers, and conspirators of that Argentine author.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was an author who not only represented the best of Argentine (and Latin American) fiction in the twentieth century, but followed the fate of some of his inspirers and became, perhaps against his will, a national hero of his country, occupying a mythical zone. Curiously, this mythical status extrapolated the borders of Argentina and the name "Borges" became universally associated with fantastic literature, labyrinths, mirrors, erudition, books.
But Becoming a myth has its drawbacks: the loss of depth when it comes to details. Borges, a man of conservative thinking (in political terms), appreciated the revolutionary Louis-Auguste Blanqui, the grandfather of Leninism. Indeed, in his fictions and poetry, there are innumerable heretics, counterfeiters, villainous, conspirators, indicating a very complex notion of reality outside the conventional axes of conservative morality. Reactivate such paradoxes - this is the quest of our collection!
For this purpose, we have an extraordinary myriad of authors whose unbridled imagination can conjure up infinite new labyrinths, to the liking of Borges: Mark Valentine and John Howard, Thomas Philips, Jonathan Wood, Rhys Hughes, Justin Isis, Stephan Friedman and some few surprises. Some of them in their first collaboration with the Raphus Press, also embarking on the search for a kind of imaginary author, who is perhaps the savage, Argentine God, who imagined the hallucinatory reality that surrounds us as a perpetual maze.
146 pages, Paperback
First published June 15, 2019
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August 10, 2019
Nice collection of short stories by various authors inspired by the work of Jorge Luis Borges. Very cool little book, beautiful illustrations. Loved the Jonathan Wood story.
January 28, 2021
This Cantwell work now seems to absolve this perhaps ego-centrist approach, with its telling and involving portrait/history of a township or community where the experimentation of literature is rife, novels written as you undergo what they describe, random text and blank spaces, ‘gaseous novels’, deconstructing famous novels in various ways, an ‘architectonic’ approach, particularly one author who tries to ‘encompass’ the reader in much the same way as many of my reviews have happened to do over the years, as a result of my studying Wimsatt’s Intentional Fallacy in the 1960s. My synchronous roosters finally coming home to roost, at last. Borges and Grutland, together? Transcending the absurd.
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Above is one of my observations at the time of the review.
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.
Above is one of my observations at the time of the review.
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