Apocryphal Collection
by H
About This Novel
A collection of novels, including nine short stories, which was published together with "The Garden of Forking Paths" as the "Fictional Collection" in 1944, continuing the theme of fictional legendary stories. On Christmas Eve in 1938, Borges hit his head on the window while going upstairs. The wound became infected and deteriorated into sepsis. He suffered from high fever, hallucinations, and aphasia. It took more than a month to recover. This experience of wandering between life and death became the author's "most proud story" in the collection of novels, "The South", which is also regarded as a turning point in Borges's writing. Since then, the complete elimination of the binary opposition between reality and fiction has become Borges's most common writing technique.
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It's quite mysterious, suddenly dueling with someone. Can't tell reality or dream, suspect he is imagining his own way of death
"The images that we can fully perceive directly are a circle, a right triangle, and a rhombus on the blackboard; but Ireneo can directly perceive the flying mane of the horse, the upright hind legs of the livestock on the hill, the ever-changing flames and countless ashes, and the various appearances of the dead during the long vigil. I don't know how many stars he saw in the sky."
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south
It's quite mysterious, suddenly dueling with someone. Can't tell reality or dream, suspect he is imagining his own way of death
"The images that we can fully perceive directly are a circle, a right triangle, and a rhombus on the blackboard; but Ireneo can directly perceive the flying mane of the horse, the upright hind legs of the livestock on the hill, the ever-changing flames and countless ashes, and the various appearances of the dead during the long vigil. I don't know how many stars he saw in the sky."
