Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man - 6/6

[tlfmb]

I am still at the A(dolfo bioy casares) B(orges) C(ortázar) of argentine literature. Even so I am not afraid of saying that Borges is the best!

[mmeditatio]

@tlfmb He's the best in all the world.

[snufkin789]

his merit to literature is without any doubt massive. his 'epilogue' alone is such a concise but stunning illustration of his platonism. philosopher and artist likewise

[ScientiaVeritasEtLux]

That last part that was read by the narrator sent chills down my spine and moved me close to tears. It was one of the most beautiful, poetic lines I've ever heard.

[wachi03]

according to Borges, I'm Borges, and I thank the person that posted this vid.

[syncopath]

10x a lot for uploading this. if Borges did not exist, it would have been a necessity to invent him.. ) .....

[Jerhf]

very very nice....i have one question, though: what is his best /famous work?

[andrewtheman19]

@Jerhf

I don't that he has a single famous story that's famous for, but Ficciones seems to be his most well-known collection.

[ArwenUndomiel2008]

@Jerhf el aleph

[angy75kyy]

thanks for this documental it was very useful

[ezequiel5583]

Epílogo:

Un hombre se propone la tarea de dibujar el mundo. A lo largo de los años puebla un espacio con imágenes de provincia, de reinos, de montañas, de bahías, de naves, de islas, de peces, de habitaciones, de instrumentos, de astros, de caballos y de personas. Poco antes de morir, descubre que ese paciente laberinto de líneas traza la imagen de su cara. (J.L.Borges, de El hacedor)

[priapus56]

There is so much rubbish on television nowadays. I have thrown mine out. Thank-you for giving me the chance to see the few real gems I miss.

[Fady83]

Thank you very much. Borges was a great man.

[redskypurple]

wow, what a brilliant mind! thank you so much for posting this! i didn't expect a movie like this on youtube.....

[themodestmouse]

This was fantastic. I'm just getting into Borges and can feel Labyrinths shifting the way I see/think the world. Nice to see the man behind the words -- cool pacing of the footage, too.

[VUNCOOL]

Thank you very much for posting this. It put pictures to what I knew already. It is a justification of Youtube that stuff like this appears. What would Borges have made of the Internet - a real Library of Babel.

[mossfitz]

His best work can evoke the sense of some magical object - somehow the writing itself and seperately, the images contained in it. Certain texts seem like metaphysical toys which model, not the material, but the meaning of the world. Play is the thing.

[GordonMorrice]

The man known as Jorge Luis Borges thought many amazing thoughts. In an amused loneliness, he know wanders the Total Library.