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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 1   Banoo | Aug 4, 2009 |  "Of all the books I have delivered to the presses, none, I think, is as personal as the straggling collection mustered for this hodgepodge, precisely because it abounds in reflections and interpretations." -- Borges, Epilogue of Dreamtigers I Love love love Borges. This is a nice, short collection in two parts (first part short prose fiction, second part poetry). I highly recommend you check out http://thefloatinglibrary.com/borges/... where you can read the whole book (for free) online! (  ) Sineokov | Apr 11, 2009 | Borges at his finest. ( ) kenand66 | Feb 25, 2008 | Of the two parts of Jorge Luis Borges--dreamtigers I would prefer the first--more or less made up of prose poems. As I get older I seem to appreciate more and more his somewhat acerbic but penetrating seeing into of things. The precision of his prose seems to always leap logically forward--it is almost inevitable-like in each and every word leading to a conclusion--with never a word more than needed--but still retaining a deep seated mystery into the interior realms of being. I would have preferred that all Dreamtigers was like the first half--not that the more standard kind of poetry (with rhyming and often in the sonnet form) of the second half is bad--a lot of it is very good--it is just my preference for the former. In any case the book overall is both insightful and often even a fun book to read. Apparently if the editors of it are to be believed it was one of Borges' favorites of his own work. Anyway it is well worth the read. (  ) lriley | Oct 15, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, Dreamtigers at first glance appears to be a sampler—albeit a dazzling one—of the master's work. Upon closer examination, however, the reader discovers the book to be a subtly and organically unified self-revelation.
Dreamtigers explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world. The central vision of the work is that of a recluse in the "enveloping serenity " of a library, looking ahead to the time when he will have disappeared but in the timeless world of his books will continue his dialogue with the immortals of the past — Homer, Don Quixote, Shakespeare. Like Homer, the maker of these dreams is afflicted with failing sight. Still, he dreams of tigers real and imagined and reflects upon of a life that, above all, has been intensely introspective, a life of calm self-possession and absorption in the world of the imagination. At the same time he is keenly aware of that other Borges, the public figure about whom he reads with mixed emotions: "It's the other one, it's Borges, that things happen to."
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'A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Through the years he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms instruments, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that that patient labyrinth of lives traces the image of his face.'
I touched a face sitting in 24C in a big metal flying tube... (