I’m reading Borges now (already on my 3rd collection!), and I wanted to highlight something that you only briefly mention. That he intends, and often succeeds, to induce the feeling of unreality in the reader. I often put the book down at the end of a story and look around me at a room that seems to be different. Of course it is I who have changed while reading the story, not the room about me. A trick you didn’t mention was that some of his stories loop back on themselves, so you read a sentence that suddenly induces a feeling of déjà vu simply because you had read that sentence an hour ago in the same story. This man was really a genius, and I intend to read everything he wrote over the next months. Beware his inappropriate adjectives!!
@ReframedYT Жыл бұрын
Such a great observation! Can't wait to get back into his work when I get the chance, myself.
@damagejackedАй бұрын
Pleased to meet you, Herbert Ashe.
@michaelmcdonald30572 ай бұрын
I have recently begun to read Borges for the first time. Not being a scholar, but a person who has a well rounded experience in literature, I am under the opinion that his works are the result of an incredible imagination and sense of what words/ phrases are at their stripped down best to convey an idea. His ability to convey information without superfluous content is what in my mind sets him above other fiction I am familiar with. Sort of an educated Bukowski.
@JustSwivel25 ай бұрын
Borges was a visionary in the purest sense. Criminally underrated and unadaptable.
@plouischenu2 жыл бұрын
How a work of such quality could have so few viewers yet? I'll share to the ones in France that could be interested
@CosmiaNebula2 жыл бұрын
I object to the characterization of his stories as "rejection of scientific, logical and perceivable reality" In fact, his stories are **rigorously** fantastic, almost to the level of mathematical rigor. His stories are sometimes quoted as epigraphs in mathematical papers and books. Source: I'm a mathematician.
@nlsantiesteban Жыл бұрын
This...100%. He works extrapolate mathematical, philosophical, theological, metaphysical, and literary concepts into narrative forms.
@Bbopjonez Жыл бұрын
You can say you are a mathematician and tell me that 1 + 1 = 5 and that doesn’t mean it is true. You should cite from one of Borges’ stories should you wish to refute the narrator’s claims. Consistent with the narrator’s claim for example is Borges’ poem El Sueño where he states that the role of dreams is to “destejer el universo…el ilusorio punto de los geometras, la línea, el plano…borrar el cosmos y erigir el caos.” If Borges sees dreams as valuable as our wakefulness as his many stories and poems about them would convince us, then his descriptions of how dreams defy mathematics and logic and undo our known universe are an affirmation of what is stated in the video.
@mickeyaugrec75604 ай бұрын
@@Bbopjonez HAH! Well stated!
@kejeso87363 ай бұрын
Latin American realities have always deifed what the rest of the world call "reality", when you tell someone the story of one of our countries they identify it more easily with fiction. But it's part of the real world. In fact, it surpasses what we consider real. That's why such 'unreal' things can be described with such scientific rigor, not only in Borges's work, but in many so called "magic realism authors" (magic realism is a concept imposed by european critics, but many of those authors mocked that, for the reasons aforementined). Mathematics are like that, they are considered the realest shit in the universe, but there are things in mathematics so hard to imagine that they seem like science fiction, mathemathicians have discovered things about the universe that are supposed to be unimaginable or even impossible, quantum physics are basically the antithesis of physics. Many authors and philosophers just defied the polar way to see the world, in which one thing is real, the other is not, one thing is factual, the other, fiction. Let's remember that diference was brought by Descartes, it's a philosofical difference, not a set fact.
@cheeze68502 жыл бұрын
Single-handedly convinced me to buy a copy of Ficciones, thank you!
@seams41862 жыл бұрын
The greatest writer ever!
@skwalka63722 жыл бұрын
Why do you say that? Have you read all the writers that ever existed? You don't need to go far to find writers who are far superior to Borges, my friend.
@seams41862 жыл бұрын
@@skwalka6372 Yes, I have
@seams41862 жыл бұрын
I have, in fact, read all the writers that ever existed. Borges is the superior one.
@skwalka63722 жыл бұрын
@@seams4186 Borges is good enough for Latin America, I suppose.
@seams41862 жыл бұрын
@@skwalka6372 and the entire world!
@VashikArmenikus2 жыл бұрын
This was an amazing video essay. This was what exactly I was looking for. Such a well-researched and well-written essay. Thank you for your hard work! And please... keep going.
@thoughts0utloud6 ай бұрын
Discovered Borges in 2020 and’ve reread his collected fictions each successive year-doing so now. Really enjoyed this!
@hh-en5rt3 жыл бұрын
Dude. You’re doing god’s work out here. Cant wait to see this channel grown.
@ReframedYT3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot! Glad you enjoyed :)
@NKRevolution2 жыл бұрын
This could use some work. Borges’ best writings demonstrate metaphysical reality and you spend the entire video arguing that his output reflects unreality. The situations demonstrated in his writings come after the confines of physics you keep imposing on him. He uses laws that should be true outside of what we can perceive and paints a portrait of what reality is like beyond us. That is why he is so incredible. Absolutely unbelievable presentation keep it up 👏🏻
@george52472 жыл бұрын
I can't believe how awesome this video was, I hope more people watch your videos in the future
@ReframedYT2 жыл бұрын
Very kind of you to say, glad you enjoyed it!
@nicolasjustiniano95933 жыл бұрын
No way. I watched your video/essay about Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi about 5 minutes ago so I had the fantastic idea to check your new uploads. There's no way you do this amazing quality content! Hope my English is readable as least (my main language is Spanish and, hey, I can say your pronunciation of "Borges" is truly admirable!)
@nicolasjustiniano95933 жыл бұрын
Also, I'd like to suggest you to research about Ezra Pound (ideogrammic method, orientalism, and his influence on others). It's kinda interesting to read about these controversial artists (Pound was a fascist, Borges, during his last years, probably forgot his libertarian thoughts when he was younger).
@ReframedYT3 жыл бұрын
@@nicolasjustiniano9593 Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm actually thinking about a video topic that deals with 20th century fascist thinkers - I'm a little familiar with Pound but I'll definitely research a bit more. Thanks for the suggestion!
@TheKnight-zf5eb2 жыл бұрын
The new movie from Christopher Nolan, "Tenet", it would be very possible to be a Borges idea, a world where time is reversed. (I know the movie doesn't deal with a "world" but Borges would write that way just like he did in Tlön)
@ItzD4nte21 күн бұрын
GEB & JLB are my favs.
@sodancethesamba9112 жыл бұрын
There are plenty of objects with only one side, take Moebius strip for example. A disk also can be one sided if you identify its antipodal points - mathematicians call it a Real Projective Plane. Many (not all) apparently impossible ideas described by Borges find its place in Mathematics and even Physics. The ideas presented in The Garden of Forking Paths are precisely what corresponds to the so called Many-World interpretations of Quantum Mechanics. It is quite remarkable that he have thought about it independently.
@skwalka63722 жыл бұрын
It is even more remarkable when you consider that Borges never attended a university (as a student) and was entirely self-taught.
@roseCatcher_2 жыл бұрын
The idea of Many World interpretation, realities existing simultaneously and closing in on each other, has been there in human theologies and mythologies for more than 6000 years. It's not new.
@DanAvenell5 ай бұрын
@@roseCatcher_ Which theologies?
@martinamattar87093 жыл бұрын
This is great!!! Thank you
@nelsonrosasaguilera34253 жыл бұрын
Wonderful job! thank you for this
@ReframedYT3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)
@thomasdeeter36794 ай бұрын
Love a post that requires me to take notes. Thank you🐍🤜💥
@peterdennis610611 ай бұрын
Absolutely excellent summary of one of (in my opinion) the 20th Century's greatest minds
@seansabu3105 ай бұрын
I think Borges is speaking to the sub conscious somehow whether he meant to or it just naturally happened as s phenomenon I dunno but his writing seems to coalesce with the readers imagination which I actually think Borges provided a structure to the imagination as having environs with tangibliilty and actuality. A place with the ability to be inhabited, experienced,explored , interacted with, communicate it's descriptions to others and most of all that can be remembered , he was writing cosmic narrations of the inner world of ones psyche as a vast universe unto itself . Borges was delineating the complexities nuances and structure of the human imagination and that structure was a labrythn
@gerardlabeouf60755 ай бұрын
Amazing video
@MV-vv7sg Жыл бұрын
Great video again. Can’t wait too see what you go on to good.
@iphymurphy60788 ай бұрын
Thank you dreamtigers is my favorite book you are very insightful
@whamster272 жыл бұрын
Amazing Essay! I think it's pretty funny that the one sided coin was lost forever in that manner
@ReframedYT2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! It's such a great story, Borges has a wickedly cruel sense of humour sometimes...
@rockismylove34 ай бұрын
Great video and great writing! I don't usually leave comments, but I do so now hoping that it will help you with the algorithm. Thank you for this amazing essay!
@eleusis77783 жыл бұрын
Awesome ! Thank you.
@ReframedYT3 жыл бұрын
thank you for watching :)
@otavioschmidt37992 жыл бұрын
Great videos
@kejeso87363 ай бұрын
Latin American realities have always deifed what the rest of the world call "reality", when you tell someone the story of one of our countries they identify it more easily with fiction. But it's part of the real world. In fact, it surpasses what we consider real. That's why such 'unreal' things can be described with such scientific rigor, not only in Borges's work, but in many so called "magic realism authors" (magic realism is a concept imposed by european critics, but many of those authors mocked that, for the reasons aforementined). Mathematics are like that, they are considered the realest shit in the universe, but there are things in mathematics so hard to imagine that they seem like science fiction, mathemathicians have discovered things about the universe that are supposed to be unimaginable or even impossible, quantum physics are basically the antithesis of physics. Many authors and philosophers just defied the polar way to see the world, in which one thing is real, the other is not, one thing is factual, the other, fiction. Let's remember that diference was brought by Descartes, it's a philosofical difference, not a set fact.
@mahendra1001002 жыл бұрын
This is a wonderful essay on Borges. May I have your permission to use some of the material presented here so pithily in an essay I am planning to write? I will of course acknowledge your help.
@ReframedYT2 жыл бұрын
That's very kind of you to say! Of course - I'd love it if you could send me a link when you're finished, curious to see what you make of it all :)
@johnpirrie97604 ай бұрын
The river that carries him away...The tiger that consumes him...The world, alas, is real. And Hengist and Horsa are gathering men...
@archiji8062 жыл бұрын
Ty for the video. I liked it a lot)
@CavisCHAN-m2p5 ай бұрын
damn this was insane
@Ryndika9 ай бұрын
In 3d videogames, there are objects with only one side.
@reaganwiles_art9 ай бұрын
A discrepancy in Borges' seeming interests further queers his stories, in that Borges considered himself a poet and poetry, the music of words, his obsession and not his weird little stories.
@misterbonzoid56238 ай бұрын
'queers'? 'discrepancy'? 'obsession'? What a lonely comment.
@AlexanderDavidson-lr7dg5 ай бұрын
There is a certain irony for me, in the presentation of this upload. I dont like to criticize and I know a lot of consideration has gone into this video. However, when I read Borges I 'hear' a moist avuncular, tongue very much in cheek, cheekily humorous voice. This however, is totally at odds with the presentation which comes across to me as a kind of factoidal robotic attempt at academic pseudo-neutrality which is what, to me, Borges is actually gently ridiculing. I found I had to give up on it as it was so devoid of humour that it was too dry for my mental palette. I am aware that that will meet with rancour from those who still, I used to partake in such mental beverages myself, who still partake of mental aridity. And I agree with NKRevolution about being hyperreality or surreality but without a twinkle in the eye to match Borges's any 'analysis' is going to fall short.
@df76793 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@ReframedYT3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@michaelgonzalez90585 ай бұрын
A planet can be more small than miniatue-miniature of life
@TatuCarreta6 ай бұрын
aguante argentina, peron, charly garcia y borges (si no pongo a charly en el medio se agarran a las trompadas) viva pappo tambien
@comeeeseee2 ай бұрын
Which books should I start with?
@ReframedYT2 ай бұрын
If you can get a hold of it, the collection ‘Labyrinths’ has most of the classics. Otherwise, ‘Ficciones’ (which is mostly included in Labyrinths). Enjoy!