jorge luis borges

I've recently been reading the complete fictions of Jorge Luis Borges, and it's struck me more than ever that I'm reading the works of a weird fiction writer. Now Borges is of course more well known as a magical realist or general fantasist, but I think a large body of his work falls firmly...

I've read and enjoyed quite a bit of Borges' writing since about 1975. When I read a Borges story I have been entertained for the duration and I may admire the various literary skills that have been displayed. For example, the irony, in "The Aleph," that this miraculous object is used as a...

Today marks what would be the 112th birthday of one of the greatest imaginative writers of all time, Argentine poet and visionary Jorge Luis Borges. Throughout a celebrated literary career, Borges wrote a series of scintillating and prescient short stories, that envisioned such ideas as the...