Deep Reads: Selected Stories of Jorge Luis Borges (one session only)

This month we are going to read six short stories by Jorge Luis Borges (1899—1986).

Borges, the blind Director of the Argentine National Library, was a founder and principal practitioner of postmodernist literature. With his genre-bending metafictions, essays, and poetry, Borges “effectively influenced the destiny of literature."

While the six stories (listed below) we will read this month are all short, they are tremendously rich, and will lead to great discussion topics

Five of the six can be found in the short stories collections “Ficciones” or “Labyrinths” found here.

If you buy any of the version after clicking on my link, I will get a few pennies to help support the cost of the meetup.

However, each of the stories are also available for free on line (Links below). This month we will read:

• The Secret Miracle
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
• The Garden of Forking Paths
• The Library of Babel
• Funes, the Memorious
• The Aleph (not included in Labyrinths)

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