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Title: A Literary Masterpiece
Review: I read "Ficciones" when I was younger and was blown away by it, but didn't actually understand anything in it. I have recently reread the entire work and am once again blown away. I still don't understand quite everything he says, but even getting past that the stories are incredible. My favorite is 'Theme of the Traitor and Hero,' but I also like 'The Library of Babel,' 'The Circular Ruins,' and 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.' His style is so concise it amazes me- an idea that would take an enormously long novel to examine satisfactorily if given to another author takes Borges a mere four and a half pages (as in 'Theme'). This might sound detrimental to the work or discouraging to the reader, but that is not the case. It is discouraging, however, in the sense that you want to read more- you almost wish it was a 400-page novel (a novel that would probably be the opus for any other writer) and not a short story that the reader is through with in five minutes.
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