A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges (1966)

Re:A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges (1966) by empath75 on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:11AM (#21343796)

I would read borges on pretty much any topic at all. You never walk away from his stories or essays thinking that it was time wasted. And I rarely put them down and stop thinking of them.

I’m not the kind of person that often quotes books to prove points but I do reach for borges stories as metaphors to understand or explain situations.

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Re:A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges (1966) by neves on Thursday October 24, 2019 @10:35AM (#21345051)

I've read Borges after studying a little of philosophy. The amount of erudite references impressed me and made me see other layers of the stories. Probably there's a world I'm missing reading Borges, and that's what makes him so marvelous.

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Re:A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges (1966) by mattxxx on Thursday October 24, 2019 @09:40AM (#21344559)

> I would read borges on pretty much any topic at all.

Yup. For example, I read this article without any interesting in learning more about Johnson and Boswell...

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