![]() ![]() If that sounds like your idea of good read, look a little deeper into the work of Argentina’s most famous literary figure through the animated TED-Ed lesson above. ![]() He presents the most fantastic of scenes in simple terms, seducing us into the forking pathway of his seemingly infinite imagination.” They are brief, often with abrupt beginnings.” His “use of labyrinths, mirrors, chess games and detective stories creates a complex intellectual landscape, yet his language is clear, with ironic undertones. Borges’ essay-like works of fiction are “filled with private jokes and esoterica, historiography and sardonic footnotes. “Reading the work of Jorge Luis Borges for the first time is like discovering a new letter in the alphabet, or a new note in the musical scale,” writes the BBC’s Jane Ciabattari. ![]()
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