A review by aranafyre
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges

3.0

I read this. I understand why Borges is a classic and I would probably appreciate many of these stories if I read them with a class either as a student or teacher. Independently, I really enjoy a lot of the concepts Borges plays with. Labyrinths, time, multiverses, divinity, fate, literature. All fascinating. But he is often times obtuse, unnecessarily convoluted, and very obsessed with name dropping every philosopher.

Also so sexist. Women just don’t exist in any of these stories. When I got to the one story written with a woman character, I was shocked. I could not remember if there was a single other she. I don’t think any of the men even run past a lady on the street.