The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim

Metadata

  • Media: #shortstory
    • Author: [[!Jorge Luis Borges]]
    • From: B-Ficciones
    • Status: read
    • Date: 2020-08-21
    • Tags: #fantasy #weirdfiction fictional commentaries
    • Rating: ★★★☆☆
    • Idea richness: ★★★☆☆

Summary

A summary and commentary on a fictional novel in which the character seeks the titular, God-like Al-Mu'tasim whom he glimpses in everyone he encounters in a kind of allegory which Borges' critiques.

Highlights

  • "[The author], as we have seen, is incapable of resisting that baser of art's temptations: the temptation to be a genius."

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