Writing is of course important to Borges, but he values ??reading more than writing. In his own words: "Others are proud of what they wrote, but I am Proud of myself for what I read”. The study gave him space for free imagination, and a large amount of reading aggravated his tendency to focus on himself, allowing him to build a dream-like personal world. This was also an important reason why he loved his title of "Director of the National Library of Argentina" .
This "Biography of Borges" talks about Borges's works, and also talks about the origin of Borges, writing, and reading. Through this book, we can better understand why Borges's poems always contain heartbreaking sentences from time to time, while his novels always present a kind of Schopenhauer-style "powerful pessimism", which is a bridge between us and Borges' thoughts. It is also the ladder for us to enter Borges’s “nihilistic” cosmology.
As Borges himself wrote in "The Claim of Literary Faith": "All literature is ultimately autobiographical. Everything is poetic because they all express They all allow us to see a kind of destiny." Thanks to the teacher's interpretation, we can see "a kind of destiny" belonging to this literary master. From the three perspectives of Borges's emotional experience, literary works and political tendencies, I saw three completely different people. It is difficult to connect these three people from a unified perspective.
Perhaps this is what a long-lived and famous writer should be like, so that you can fully feel how reality, fiction and ideals are intertwined throughout his life, but you can't explain it clearly. of.
His evaluation cannot be overstated in any case, but no matter who he is, he is actually not qualified. However, the literary legacy he left will continue to have a long-lasting influence. A few years later, future generations will Perhaps the only way to approach him is through novels and thoughts...