Mention Books Toward Dreamtigers
| Original Title: | El hacedor |
| ISBN: | 0292715498 (ISBN13: 9780292715493) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Representaion During Books Dreamtigers
Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, Dreamtigers at first glance appears to be a sampler—albeit a dazzling one—of the master's work. Upon closer examination, however, the reader discovers the book to be a subtly and organically unified self-revelation.
Dreamtigers explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world. The central vision of the work is that of a recluse in the "enveloping serenity " of a library, looking ahead to the time when he will have disappeared but in the timeless world of his books will continue his dialogue with the immortals of the past — Homer, Don Quixote, Shakespeare. Like Homer, the maker of these dreams is afflicted with failing sight. Still, he dreams of tigers real and imagined, and reflects upon of a life that, above all, has been intensely introspective, a life of calm self-possession and absorption in the world of the imagination. At the same time he is keenly aware of that other Borges, the public figure about whom he reads with mixed emotions: "It's the other one, it's Borges, that things happen to."
Point Appertaining To Books Dreamtigers
| Title | : | Dreamtigers |
| Author | : | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 96 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 1985 by University of Texas Press (first published 1960) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Short Stories. Fiction. Magical Realism. Literature |
Rating Appertaining To Books Dreamtigers
Ratings: 4.2 From 3116 Users | 280 ReviewsArticle Appertaining To Books Dreamtigers
I admire Borges' ability to craft a plot, but maybe that's because the Borges story always cracks a little bit at the end, he always has the urge to take it all back and say Maybe this was a dream, maybe it was something happening far away and at another time than I've just said.Dreamtigers is entirely cracks, notes, fragments. Dreams and recantings and odes to toenails. It's the best Borges I've ever read.As an example: "Parable of the Palace," tells the story of a poet being shown an infiniteThe cover of my edition of this book has a sheet of lined graph paper with a nebulous image of a tiger carefully drawn over it. I think this is a good visual representation of this poetry. I think the introduction says something to this effect-- Borges indulges in fantastical thinking not for its own sake, but to come at reality from a more advantageous angle. A lot of "mindfucks" here, and a lot of good things to just meditate on. Maybe its related to magical realism? Seems like it. Like the
Impressions, momentary and vivid, would wash over him. and then they wash over the reader.I have the Collected Fictions (with copious translator's notes), but am splitting my review of that into its components, listed in publication order: Collected Fictions - all reviews. Dreamtigers, aka The Maker, is the fifth, published in 1960, and Im including reviews of two pieces published under the title Museum, and the four prose pieces from In Praise of Darkness, published in 1969.Brevity and
Impressions, momentary and vivid, would wash over him. and then they wash over the reader.I have the Collected Fictions (with copious translator's notes), but am splitting my review of that into its components, listed in publication order: Collected Fictions - all reviews. The Maker is the fifth, published in 1960, but often under the name Dreamtigers, so my review of The Maker is now under that title, here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Out of the five books by Jorge Luis Borges I've read so far, this is probably the one I find hardest to categorize. It is certainly the most autobiographical of his short story collections, yet also the one that is most mythological in character. The overall impression is that it's Borges himself reflecting back upon both his personal life, literary legacy and all of human history that leads up to this with the consideration of what will happen then. Borges' own internal spiritual life then
Few things have happened to me, and I have read a great many.___Jorge Luis BorgesIt was uncanny upon my first reading of only a few pages that the mood and tone of this Borges work seemed surprisingly familiar to me. It was as if I was the one writing what I was reading, even though I understood so little of the text. But it felt so comfortable. I was blissfully content being involved so intimately with this music, and the words of Borges (or his translator) I found to be simply perfect
Strange and prismatic. I wish I could read this forever. "Islam asserts that on the unappealable day of judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment. As a child, I felt before large mirrors that same horror of a spectral duplication or multiplication of reality... I watched them with misgivings. Sometimes I feared
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