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But life for the people dwelling in this library is profoundly frustrating, even depressing, since only a vanishingly small percentage of the books make any sense at all.

Orbis terrarum est speculum Ludi: The world is mirror to the game, says Borges in the thirteenth story, quoting a sixteenth century Latinist. Unfortunately, unlike Ireneo, I cannot recollect where or when I read Funes, the Memorious, just that I did.

Something about the manner of Fergus Kilpatrick’s death strikes Ryan as enigmatic, a series of events that are like “circular labyrinths” (that image again! There are layers of meaning and frequent allusions to historic figures, other literary works, and philosophical ideas, not readily discernable at first read.

And I was pleasantly surprised to find that several stories were set in my native country, or at least had characters who came from there. Taking its place was the question of whether or not that distinction was even worth making, and later if it existed at all. He runs from the station, down the road, into the next, he keeps running until he is sure I cannot catch him. This delay [in an execution] was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables. With one quick look, you and I perceive three wineglasses on a table; Funes perceived every grape that had been pressed into the wine and all the stalks and tendrils of its vineyard.

Naomi Lindstrom explains that Borges saw an effort to make a story appear natural "as an impoverishment of fiction's possibilities and falsification of its artistic character. I never really know how to review collections of short stories without the reviews becoming ponderously long. A collection of 17 short stories following the perspectives of different narratives, usually in first person which suggests Borges’ own voice.

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