Week 5: "Labyrinths" (Borges)
Hi everyone! I was reading some of the blogs before I started to write mine and noticed that a lot of people already had an idea or knew about Jorge Luis Borges. I had never heard about him before nor was I familiar with any of his other works. I decided to do a little research on him after reading the novel for this week, since I really struggled with trying to understand most of it. The website I was reading talked about how the majority of his work played with the themes and concepts of the intersection between dreams and reality. I think once I understood this I was able to understand a little bit more of what some of the stories were about. The first story in Labyrinths “ Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”, took me a while to understand that he was talking about fictional worlds that he had created. The lecture was talking about the intersectionality of “play” in Borges works. I think that this is very evident in this story. When describing Tlön and its values on philosoph...