Surreal. Weird. Undefinable. Mind-bending.
You choose – because as I was working my way through Jorge Luis Borges’ Fictions I had no idea what I was reading! More often than not the individual pieces felt like non-fiction or reportage; but then the content was so surreal…
It was one of those books where I really needed the translator’s afterword to find out what had actually been going on!
All of which leaves me with a dilemma: do I recommend you read it?
Part of me says ‘no’, you’ll be wasting your time. And part of me ‘yes’, because you will find it challenging, you may find it enlightening, and it could be the most important book you read this year… Or the least.
See what I mean? Seems a fitting conclusion, considering…
Ian Gouge - Writer 