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| Original Title: | El jardín de los senderos que se bifurcan |
| ISBN: | 110122245X (ISBN13: 9781101222454) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Jorge Luis Borges
Audiobook | Pages: 10 pages Rating: 4.29 | 2879 Users | 201 Reviews
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"The Garden of Forking Paths" (original Spanish title: "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan") is the title story in the collection El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941), which was republished in its entirety in Ficciones (Fictions) in 1944. It was the first of Borges's works to be translated into English by Anthony Boucher when it appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in August 1948.
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| Title | : | The Garden of Forking Paths |
| Author | : | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Book Format | : | Audiobook |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 10 pages |
| Published | : | June 24th 2010 by Penguin Audio (first published 1941) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Magical Realism. Philosophy. Literature. Fantasy |
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Ratings: 4.29 From 2879 Users | 201 ReviewsPiece Regarding Books The Garden of Forking Paths
I thought of a maze of mazes, of a sinuous, ever growing maze which would take in both past and future and would somehow involve the stars.That dude sure likes labyrinths huh
Borges is el maestro. The master of books, the great magician, he could write short stories (or any stories) like no one else. I love the way he writes and I enjoy it even more in Spanish. These stories are just appetizers for what we can expect from his most famous books and I didn't give it 5/5 because these are not my favourite stories of his. Otherwise, a perfect collection of short stories, about the time, how we perceive it, about its characteristics, about all the possibilites we have
The Universal LibraryIf life (or a life) can be construed as a text, then the universe might be (analogous to) a library:"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."This early, 1941 collection is a mini-gallery of Borges stories that revolve around construction and interpretation, imagination and understanding, of the universe. On the way, it takes in time, space, meaning, truth, consciousness, our selves and our
An exhilarating spy story combined with magical realism. Borges proposes that time is infinite and its path forks forward based on the decisions made when faced with choices. The reader is left seesawing on the premise of fate versus free will (and likely ruminating on how choices/decisions may have altered their own lives). This notion goes one step further when the characters are allowed to become unbound from decision making and can occupy all paths concurrently thus creating multiple
You are having breakfast this morning. Cereals. You are also floating in the middle of the ocean now, alone in a raft, trying to survive a shipwreck three days ago. Both are true as well as all the millions of possibilities about you and everyone else.Goodreads quote for today by Janet Frame: "There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water." Yesterday, it was: "Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?" (Edgar Rice Burroughs). Two of the many
The master of all things metaphysical and dark. Borges was surreal, washed in darkness, and strangely distant, long before it was ever considered cool and/or hip. Think of him as the Proto-Goth, think of him as whomever you wish, but any reader who enjoys the strange and shadowy should give Borges a try.
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