It's kind of weird that I chose to read this whereas I've never read one of his books of short stories. Nevertheless, I picked it up on the shelf and read it. It's cool that a high school dropout was able to become one of South America's best writers. However, Borges comes across as very smart and determined. He sent his work to millions of places, not over that he started many literary magazines himself. This book also goes over all of the trials in his life: his blindness, his hatred of the Perons, and his several unrequited crushes. The most frustrating of which was the writer Norah Lange. She was a woman clearly in love with another man. Whenever the man dumped her she went right back to Jorge only to go back if the man showed the slightest interest. I felt like telling Jorge she's not into you. This book made me read The Aleph which I reviewed earlier.
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