By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Scene Writer on Aug 24, 2011, at 4:52 PM Updated on 8/24 at 4:52 PM
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Jorge Luis Borges
Today would be 112th birthday of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges, whose unclassifiable tales set the example for what came to be called "magic realism" -- a blending of the fantastic with the mundane.
Google is paying tribute to Borges with an image that transforms its name into a landscape of labyrinths and libraries, two subjects that recur throughout Borges' work.
Many of his stories start out like academic essays, before they begin to unfold and refold back into themselves, such as "Pierre Menard, Author of 'The Quixote,'" which imagines a contemporary writer -- by living the sort of life Cervantes lived, immersing himself in that world -- who attempts to write his own "Don Quixote."
"He did not want to compose another Quixote — which is easy — but the Quixote itself. Needless to say, he never contemplated a mechanical transcription of the original; he did not propose to copy it. His admirable intention was to produce a few pages which would coincide — word for word and line for line — with those of Miguel de Cervantes."Another of Borges' brief and deliciously unsettling stories is "Borges and I," which you can read in its entirety
here.
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