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We're discussing the short story collection "The Aleph" (1949) by Jorge Luis Borges. We'll start this discussion with "A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)" and cover as many stories as possible in sequence as they appear in the collection. Any stories we don't cover will be discussed during our next session.

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We'll meet in the Blinding Cyclops Discord server. Here's the link: https://discord.gg/4uCVFs4vHw

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Borges and The Labyrinth
Seminar Description:

This is an ongoing seminar dedicated to discussing the works of Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986). Some participants are reading through Borges' canon of works that have been translated into English; it’s equally possible to drop in and out of sessions for particular anthologies, stories, or books, as one's time or interests dictate.

Borges spent his career as a writer imagining labyrinths and paradoxes that recast the nature of reality. In this seminar, we’ll engage his works in rough chronological order as we attempt to escape those labyrinths and resolve those paradoxes. What did Borges mean? Who was he? Why did he write what he wrote?

This seminar will read and discuss the works listed below.

Fiction list: A Universal History of Iniquity (1935); The Garden of Forking Paths (1941); Six Problems for Don Isidora Parodi (1942); Artifices (1944); The Aleph (1949); The Maker (1960); The Book of Imaginary Beings (1967); In Praise of Darkness (1969); Brodie’s Report (1970); The Book of Sand (1975); Shakespeare’s Memory (1983).

Nonfiction list: select essays and lectures (1922-1986); Evaristo Carriego (1955); The Craft of Verse (1967-68); Borges on Writing (1971); Seven nights (1977); Borges at Eighty (1982).

Poetry list: Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923); Moon Across the Way (1925); San Martin Copybook (1929); The Maker (1960); The Self and the Other (1964); For Six Strings (1965); In Praise of Darkness (1969); The Gold of the Tigers (1972); The Unending Rose (1975); The Iron Coin (1976); The History of the Night (1977); The Limit (1981); Atlas (1984); Los Conjurados (1985).

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