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Episode: Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Description: Podcast: Close Readings (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Jorge Luis BorgesPub date: 2025-08-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJorge Luis Borges was a librarian with rock star status, a stimulus for magical realism who was not a magical realist, and a wholly original writer who catalogued and defined his own precursors. It’s fitting that he was fascinated by paradoxes, and his most famous stories are fantasias on themes at the heart of this series: dream...