Instead, being a librarian and one of the world's most widely read people, he became the leading practitioner of a densely layered imaginistic writing style that has been imitated throughout this century, but has no peer (although Umberto Eco sometimes comes close, especially in Name of the Rose).īorges's stories are redolent with an intelligence, wealth of invention, and a tight, almost mathematically formal style that challenge with mysteries and paradoxes revealed only slowly after several readings. If Jorge Luis Borges had been a computer scientist, he probably would have invented hypertext and the World Wide Web. Inverarity One-line summary: A collection of short stories and other writings by an author woefully unfamiliar in the English-speaking world.
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