Week 5: Labyrinths by Luis Borges
Reading Labyrinths by Luis Borges this week was certainly an interesting piece of work to follow. I first began by reading the text as I was interested in getting a brief understanding of what it was about before watching the lecture, however after the first few stories I was still quite lost and confused and I decided to watch the lecture before I continued reading. This certainly helped me feel as though I wasn't just misreading or misinterpreting the stories, but rather that they were crafted intentionally in a way to make us question and rethink what we have read. I also found it interesting to affirm that the ways in which Borges writes of serious matters, such as death, were also intentional. One of the stories that is discussed in the lecture titled “ Library of Babel” was one that I found particularly interesting and I credit this to its intense use of visualization. Though I couldn't exactly pinpoint what book it reminded me of in terms of authors intentionally creati...