9 Jun 2021
The short stories of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges are unlike those of any other author. Despite an average length of only a few pages, each tale is packed full of mind-boggling impossibilities of physics, philosophy and psychology, some of which are even hard to imagine. We’ll be taking a look at how Borges crafted his stories and some of the incredible thinking going on behind the scenes.

FURTHER READING/VIEWING/LISTENING

‘Labyrinths’ by Jorge Luis Borges: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Labyrinths-S…

‘This Craft of Verse’ Lectures by Jorge Luis Borges: • Jorge Luis Borges: This Craft of Verse Lec…

On Alexius Meinong’s Theory of Objects: • Nonexistent Objects & Imaginary Worlds: Cr…

Radio Programmes about Borges’ work and life:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b04…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3c…

MUSIC

‘jake’ – Che-Yu : / jake-1

‘sonder’ – Che-Yu : / sonder-1

“Ebbs and Flows” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b…

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