A review by reasie
Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges

3.0

The preface says that Borges hopes to tell realistic, straightforward stories, and for the most part the stories are set in Buenos Aires and have the feel of first-hand or second-hand accounts. All are in first person with the unnamed narrator supposedly Borges himself. The last story, the titular story, breaks from this pattern to present a bizarre account of a barbaric African tribe. I will say that Jews are shown as turncoats and villains in the stories, and I feel there is an overall racism lurking within the Argentine patriotism. It turned me off what is otherwise really well-written.