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Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

出版社

Penguin Classics

出版时间

2000-09-28

ISBN

9780141184845

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍
这并非一本供人顺畅阅读的文学作品，而是一座需要读者亲手参与建造的迷宫。博尔赫斯将形而上学的命题——时间、自我、无限、命运——折叠进寓言般的短章里，让虚构侵入现实、让梦境污染生活、让历史成为某个低等神明写给恶魔的密文。读者在短评里既惊叹于它"既是无限的又是周期闭环"的宇宙观，也坦承在地铁里对着认得却拼不出意思的单词感到"虚脱"。它适合那些愿意被文本反噬的人：当你不再追问"这讲的是什么故事"，而是意识到故事也在书写你时，博尔赫斯的魔法才真正开始。
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核心看点
  • 本书收录博尔赫斯最具代表性的奇幻短篇，如《小径分岔的花园》《环形废墟》等，展现其标志性的迷宫叙事与哲学思辨。作品融合神话、宗教、历史与虚构，构建出无限循环、虚实交织的文学宇宙，对后世科幻与后现代文学影响深远，是理解拉美文学爆炸及全球先锋派写作的关键文本。
  • 作者通过‘书中书’、梦境污染现实、时间旅行与双重身等手法，挑战传统叙事逻辑。文本充满学术引用与伪注释，营造百科全书式的虚假真实感。读者将在看似严谨的论述中遭遇逻辑悖论，体验认知边界的崩塌，感受语言与思想在无限可能性中的迷失与重构，这是博尔赫斯式智性游戏的极致体现。
  • 书中探讨时间非线性、身份同一性、宇宙无限性等深刻命题。如《特隆、乌克巴尔、奥比斯·特蒂乌斯》展示虚构如何侵蚀现实，《巴别图书馆》隐喻人类知识的荒谬与徒劳。这些故事并非单纯娱乐，而是对存在本质的严肃追问，引导读者反思现实、记忆与虚构的界限，体验智力上的震撼与道德上的虚无感。
读者共识
  • 读者普遍承认本书极具挑战性，初读常感困惑、虚脱，甚至怀疑翻译质量。但坚持读完者多表示震撼，认为其思想深度与文学价值无可替代。博尔赫斯被公认为二十世纪最杰出的作家之一，其作品对现实、时间、身份的探讨具有永恒意义。尽管部分读者批评其故弄玄虚、废话连篇，但主流观点仍肯定其开创性，认为其迷宫叙事是文学史上的奇迹，值得反复研读。
  • 读者共识认为，博尔赫斯的作品不适合追求情节刺激的读者，但适合喜欢思考、探索未知领域的读者。其文本虽晦涩，但语言纯净、逻辑严密，具有独特的智性美感。许多读者表示，阅读过程如同进入迷宫，虽无法说出每个转角的意义，但整体体验令人难忘。本书被视为提升思维维度、拓展认知边界的工具，而非消遣读物。读者被警告不要试图‘破解’迷宫，而应沉浸其中。
  • 读者强调，博尔赫斯并非玄学家或骗子，而是以文学方式探讨哲学问题的严肃作家。其作品中的虚构元素旨在揭示现实的虚幻性，而非欺骗读者。尽管部分评论指责其引经据典、逻辑漏洞，但多数读者认为这是其艺术策略的一部分。读者被提醒，不要将书中内容当作事实依据，而应关注其文学价值与思想启发。本书不适合寻求明确答案的读者，但适合愿意在不确定性中探索的读者。
精彩摘录
  • "Borges once claimed that the basic devices of all fantastic literature are only four in number: the work within the work, the contamination of reality by dream, the voyage in time, and the double. These are both his essential themes--the problematical nature of the world, of knowledge, of time, of t"
  • "I recalled that among the Ethiopians it is well known that monkeys deliberately do not speak so they will not be obliged to work, and I attributed Argos's silence to suspicion or fear."
  • "This doctrinal item observed that the lottery is an interpolation of chance in the order of the world and that to accept errors is not to contradict chance:it is to corroborate it."
  • "One of the schools of Tlon goes so far as to negate time: it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than as a present hope, that the past has no reality other than as a present memory. Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our lif"
  • "Everything is repeated many times, fourteen times, but two things in the world seem to be only once: above, the intricate sun; below, Asterion. Perhaps I have created the stars and the sun and this enormous house, but I no longer remember."
  • "Let others curse and weep; I rejoice the fact that our destiny completes its circle and is perfect."
  • "I shall remain in Borges, not in myself (if it is true that I am someone), but I recognize myself less in his books than in many others or in the laborious strumming of a guitar. Years ago I tried to free myself from him and went from the mythologies of the suburbs to the games with time and infinit"
  • "The literature of this hemisphere (like Meinong's subsistent world) abounds in ideal objects, which are convoked and dissolved in a moment, according to poetic needs. At times they are determined by mere simultaneity. There are objects composed of two terms, one of visual and another of auditory cha"
用户评论
How wild his imagination can go! Highly logical and intelligent, a great enchanting read.
我不喜欢他的假正经学术文风可不可以？每一篇短篇都有labyrinth一字，是不是太重复了？虽然我承认很喜欢其中一些作品
Essay看不懂，不够熟悉related work。Story part, Borges对continuity, limit and fractal这些东西的理解和讨论总觉得有点偏，就好像做理论和做应用的人虽然在用同一个model但关注的点完全不一样。
灵感源泉，has a rare and appreciable density, 很可能会是定义我这个人生阶段的书
读到Everything and Nothing真的流了泪 / 另，除了艾柯的How to Write a Thesis，这本也该是博士研究必读了，精准的叙事结构下一本正经地“引用”与“胡诌”，有时赘述成为了表述观点的唯一方式 / 提到De Quincey，这本书里对阿根廷西班牙的地理图绘也该纳入到psychogeography的讨论中
假正經的文筆讓我看不下去⋯⋯
谢谢所有的鱼
认真把玩宇宙迷宫，最喜欢the immortal和the god‘s script
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