The 5 best texts by Jorge Luis Borges

March 05, 2019 at 21:21 p.m.


The 5 best texts by Jorge Luis Borges


Jorge Luis Borges He was one of the most recognized writers of the 20th century. Throughout his work he developed in different genres such as poetry and essay, but managed to mark the world with his stories and stories.

If you have not read it, you have to start now. Here we tell you about five of his best texts.

The Aleph

What is the aleph? Borges tells us that he is a sphere between two and three centimeters in diameter located behind a basement staircase. "A point where all the points of the universe converge". Beyond that description, El Aleph is a wonderful reference to writing and the possibility of creating beyond reality.

Funes, the memorioso

This short story talks about insomnia and the importance of forgetting to structure reality. It is the story of Irineo Funes, a man who after an accident becomes capable of remembering everything he sees and hears. Here you will find one of the themes of Borges: the human finitude in front of the chaotic and infinite universe.

The Garden of Forking Paths

Two spies chase each other during Home War World in this detective story. The mystery lies not in who will find who, but in the path that each one will take within their own labyrinth. This story is a metaphor of the possibilities and consequences that arise from the decisions we make.


The sand book

A seller offers the protagonist a strange book with the words Holy Writ (Holy Mandate) written on the spine. The pages of the copy do not have a correlative numbering, and when passing one of them it is impossible to find it again. The sand book can be considered a perfectionist summary in which Borges speaks of redemption, the manifestation of the divine in the everyday world, the infinite and the obsession with absolute knowledge.

The meeting

This singular story touches the inescapable condition of the destiny traced. This is manifested in the figure of two knives that belonged to two rivals who swore death. In this writing, the author achieves the right balance betweento reflection, fantasy and description of the violent life of Argentine suburbs.