Description

This work contains twenty- three great Borges stories, Borges parables including the classical 'Borges and I' , literary and philosophical speculations of great interest, puzzling plots which lead to surprising sentences, labyrinths, mysteries of time and infinity, descriptions of Buenos Aires and its environment, daggers and other macho paraphanelia, dreams and misdirected destinations, satirical scholarship, mock memory, a story of a child who remembers everything and so is a mind lost, posturings of heroism and duels to the death , surfaces of a finer taste , exotic recombinations of books from many different libraries, endless rereadings of Stevenson, Quixote, Chesterton and a nineteenth - century librarian's favorites, Kafkalike Heraclitean fire, a mixture of riches an abundance of material to make the reader wonder at how such a unique mind, soul and writer came into the world, incomparable great literature which will influence the readers' reading for the rest of their lives.