george’s Reviews > Fictions by Borges, Jorge Luis ( Author ) ON Sep-07-2000, Paperback > Status Update
george
is 71% done
Finished "The Shape of the Sword" and "Traitor & Hero" - enjoyed both. First one, the brief interjection on "men being all men" made me think that the Englishman was suffering the damage he inflicted on another: I was wrong. Second one, I've never encountered fiction like this before. It feels I'm still getting used to whatever it is Borges is doing...
— May 31, 2026 01:24PM
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george
is 65% done
Finished 'Funes, His Memory' - enjoyed. Been interested in unorthodox story structures; concept of the "spiral" or "explosion" which begins with a simple idea, but grows to impressive and unprecedented scales. Lots of these works seems to grapple with similar narrative formats...
— May 28, 2026 07:45AM
george
is finished
Completed TGOFP: enjoyed the Library of Babel, Pierre Menard, Herbert Quain. Feel I need to I need to reread Tlön and The Circular Ruins. Definitely need to revisit The Lottery of Babylon (I skipped it)
— May 27, 2026 02:50AM
