Borges Marathon, Part 2: The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro
I love the writing of Jorge Luis Borges. Back in the early days of this blog, I was so deeply affected by reading his collection of ‘fictions’ that I broke my optimistic vow of reviewing every book I read. It seemed impossible to review a book so vast and varied—it would be like trying to catalogue the contents of one of the infinite libraries of Borges’s stories.
So, instead, I set myself an even more impossible task: to review each story individually. All 101 of them.
My failure was predictable—the only disappointment was that I didn’t even get past the first review: a look at the bizarre life and abrupt death of the cruel redeemer Lazarus Morell. Then, life intervened: two books published, a move across the Atlantic to Barbados, then back across to Crete, and then five years of living everywhere and nowhere.
The Borges Collected Fictions lay waiting all this time in a cardboard box in my parents’ loft, finally emerging again last year for me to reread and be amazed by all over again.
On his blog A Writer’s Life, British novelist Andrew Blackman shares book reviews, insights into the writing process and the latest literary news, as well as listing short story contests with a total of more than $250,000 in prize money.
Source: https://andrewblackman.net/2021/03/borges-marathon-part-2-the-improbable-impostor-tom-castro/
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