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Borges Stories - M.R. 2013
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The Invention of Morel (other topics)Fictions (other topics)
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (other topics)
Collected Fictions (other topics)
Each story can be found in English in either his Fictions (aka ‘Ficciones’) collection or the Penguin edition, Collected Fictions. Most of these stories can also be found in the New Directions edition, Labyrinths. Fictions is a compilation of two earlier books, ‘The Garden of Forking Paths’ (1941) and ‘Artifices’ (1944). A good Borges Bibliography can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Lu...
We will read and discuss one story every two weeks and will follow the order in the Fictions book.
Week One – April 1, 2013
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Week Two – April 15, 2013
The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim
Week Three – April 29, 2013
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
Week Four – May 13, 2013
The Circular Ruins
Week Five – May 27, 2013
The Lottery in Babylon
Week Six – June 10, 2013
A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain
Week Seven – June 24, 2013
The Library of Babel
Week Eight – July 8, 2013
The Garden of Forking Paths
Week Nine – July 22, 2013
Funes, His Memory
Week Ten – August 5, 2013
The Shape of the Sword
Week Eleven – August 19, 2013
The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
Week Twelve – September 2, 2013
Death and the Compass
Week Thirteen – September 16, 2013
The Secret Miracle
Week Fourteen – September 30, 2013
Three Versions of Judas
Week Fifteen – October 14, 2013
The End
Week Sixteen – October 28, 2013
The Cult of the Phoenix
Week Seventeen – November 11, 2013
The South
Week Eighteen - December 2, 2013
The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Bioy was a good friend and colleague of Borges. This novella will closeout our reading of Borges for 2013.