Personal Anthology

"Of course, there is no reason to believe that this book is intended for the 'general reader,' nor even to take Borges's own statement of its purpose too seriously, in view of the examples of literary duplicty that abound in his work...One always ends up comparing Borges to Kafka, and it is true that each is obsessed by the same enigma: the fabulous complexity of the universe confronting man's ridiculous inadequate attempts at unraveling it...[An] opposition underlies much of the art of our time, and it determines opposite responses: we read Kafka from something like necessity; we read Borges for enjoyment, our own indifference taking pleasure in the frightful but robust spectacle of a disinherited cosmos. Each, like the northern and southern hemispheres of Borges's Tlon, is a different aspect of the same aggressive, enigmatic planet."Borges, Jorge Luis is the author of 'Personal Anthology', published 1994 under ISBN 9780802130778 and ISBN 0802130771.