A reading of Shakespeare's Memory by Jorge Luis Borges

[@Chesterton7]

Thanks!

[@unalanil]

There is another man too whose face i have never seen. 1589- a note for myself.

[@iremozyigit01]

I dont know the characters of this story.. It is so complicated

[@richardwestwood8212]

Life is simple, nothing is complicated.

[@AndrewLeigh-v1l]

Shakespeare s easy,,, Borges is challenging,,,, check out Borges EVERY THING AND NOTHING,,,,,, its really good it's about when Shakespeare retired in 1613 3 years before he died,,,,,, err a bit random to mention, but rember mike yarwood the comedy impression ist ,,, mike had a nervous breakdown at the end of his career well Borges hints at Shakespeare s mental state like yarwood having to create lots of characters,,,,, yes Borges is challenging,,,,,, im an Advocate for Shakespeare,,, im a tour guide ar the new Shakespeare playhouse in Prescott ,,,,,, err something to think about well Shakespeare in 1580 when he was 16 got a job in Preston as a schoolteacher 😂 reading can be hard work but stay with it and have fun 😂

[@Elefantter]

I may have too high thoughts about Borges, although his stories are good, they are not as good as I expect. It may be a new The Library Of Babel that I am hoping for.

[@emiliorolandi994]

Try with "the Aleph" or maybe "tlön uqbar orbis tertius"... true masterpieces

[@rogeliomazaeda7047]

I am sorry for you.

[@malzcuatro3379]

He got many stories better than that one.

[@josephpedulla7831]

I agree. This story is yet another example of the modern tendency to confuse the writing of fiction with an exercise in superfluous intellectual vanity. I could hardly get through it without screaming out loud. For a writer supposedly so adept and penetrating, we get pretty much close to nothing here. If you are going to tackle a subject like Shakespeare's memory, you'd better give the reader something unforgettable, not something sublimely forgettable. This is nothing, it seems, but an opportunity for Borges to brandish his bona fides and drop a bunch of jewels from literary trivial pursuit or Jeopardy. Borges, we know you're smart. Now, what about Shakespeare??? This story is like the Dad who holds out his clenched fist to his child upon coming home and says, "Daddy's got something for you!" But when the child opens up the hand, it is empty, and the father says, "Sucker!" Bad Dad. Bad story.

[@josephpedulla7831]

And of course it was printed in The New Yorker, another little corner in the narrow neighborhood of self-referential intellectuals who care more about name dropping and obscure allusions to German poetry than about penetrating the human soul.