In addition,
Borges, funny parishioner:
For what ? Furthermore, How ? Consequently, By what spells did such a type invented such stories, drawn from such worlds? Moreover, Poor are the words that come to us to qualify the work as Borges. For example, It is not enough for him to have approached almost all genres – news. Nevertheless, stories, poems – for having left us on the side, taken by the torrent of images, ideas. Nevertheless, These are the games of his mind. Consequently, his features of humor too, his innumerable references considered to be one of the fine arts which, each page turned, give us to see a universe. Therefore, To the novices that the intimidated man. to the amateurs who, believing to borges, funny parishioner know everything, have the right to be a little shaken in their certainties, recommend two recent works.
The biography devoted to him by Odile Felgine first, published by Plon. “It was also the paternal grandmother of Borges. Fanny, who, after having read tales for toddlers in English, began to teach him to decipher this language. She first read him the Presbyterian Bible of King Jacques (James), well known in England. She practiced it daily and knew many verses by heart. The child acquired a reformed sense of Christianity which sometimes pushed him to claim to be a Protestant. »» We are reassured; Modest as always, but reassured. Borges is us. Finally … to us, it’s quickly said.
Between the autobiographical course. literary reflection – Borges, funny parishioner
The philosopher Jean-Pierre Dupuy, in a book halfway through the autobiographical journey and literary reflection, encourages us to Dizziness. Think with borges (Threshold). A tribute borges, funny parishioner to the one who upset him. who revealed to him that complexity can express themselves in a fun and limpid way. “A story of Borges is first of all a story. with a plot, a beginning and an end”note the author with accuracy. At the end of his adventure. in a Sartre pastiche, he writes: “Borges is all men, and each man is all men and borges. »» You still have to know why, how, by what spells. (To follow …)
• Odile Feline, Jorge Luis BorgesLead, 422 p., 26 €.
• Jean-Pierre Dupuy, DizzinessThreshold, 260 p., € 23.
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