#Ficciones
Marvelous. Even in translation, I true spectacle of language. Time-twisting and reality-bending. At several points while reading I thought to myself: I can see why Danielewski cribbed so heavily from this for House of Leaves. A copy should be on the bookshelf of every aspiring novelist. (Yes, it requires some extra cognition to get through but every piece is worth the effort.)
composite rating: 4.1176★
INDIVIDUAL RATINGS:
Part One: The Garden of Forking Paths
Prologue
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius — ★★★★★
- The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim — ★★★★
- Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote — ★★★½
- The Circular Ruins — ★★★★★
- The Babylon Lottery — ★★★★
- An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain — ★★★
- The Library of Babel — ★★★★★
- The Garden of Forking Paths — ★★★★★
Part Two: Artifices
Prologue
- Funes, the Memorious — ★★★½
- The Form of the Sword — ★★★★
- Theme of the Traitor and Hero — ★★★
- Death and the Compass — ★★★★★
- The Secret Miracle — ★★★★
- Three Versions of Judas — ★★★
- The End — ★★★★
- The Sect of the Phoenix — ★★★★
- The South — ★★★★ ★
