Status Updates From Collected Fictions

“There was the cat, asleep. He ordered a cup of coffee, slowly spooned sugar into it, tasted it (a pleasure [ ] forbidden him in the clinic) and thought, while he stroked the cat’s black fur, that this contact was illusory, that he and the cat were separated as though by a pane of glass, because man lives in time, in successiveness, while the magical animal lives in the present, in the eternity of the instant.”

“At that same period there was hope that the fundamental mysteries of mankind—the origin of the Library and of time—might be revealed. In all likelihood those profound mysteries can indeed be explained in words; if the language of the philosophers is not sufficient, then the multiform Library must have produced the extraordinary language that is required, together with the words and grammar of that language.”

El Informe de Brodie: 4/5. Magnificos cuentos que se basan en la creación de la expectación más que en la respuesta.

Destaco: El Indigno, El encuentro, Guayaquil, El Evangelio según Marcos y El informe de Brodie.

El Aleph: 4,5/5. Como el propio Borges dice, son cuentos de ámbito más fantástico y por ende y por como soy, me han gustado los que más. Las descripciones la verdad que pese a su pomposidad son magníficas.

Destaco, por supuesto, el Aleph, El Inmortal, Emma Zunz, Deutsches Requiem, La escritura del dios, Abenjacán el Bojarí muerto en su laberinto y El hombre en el umbral.

Shakespeare's Memory

The Rose of Paracelcus