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Article: Jorge Luis Borges.(critical essay on short story writer)(Critical essay)
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is the master of the postmodern short story. Consequently perhaps, he is not as widely read as he should be. In order to appreciate Borges, all but the most intrepid literary reader must overcome two basic prejudices: that short stories offer less pleasure than novels and that postmodern literature alienates all but the most highbrow of readers. But if you don't read short stories, you miss the medium in which postmodernism is often most powerful. The techniques of the style--layers of texts within texts; doubts about the nature of fiction, authorship, and the reliability of the narrator; existential questions; metafiction; a mix of the real ...
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