Jorge Luis Borges 'Death And The Compass'

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Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones is a collection of short stories exploring themes like fate versus chance and mortality. While each story is awestrucking with its cleverness, often explanations like those of Maggie and Demi are needed to fully appreciate Borges’ detail-rich writings.
Maggie’s presentation about detective stories allowed me to appreciate the extent of how surprising the motive and realization of the crimes are in “Death and the Compass” despite Borges’ adhesion to hallmark elements of the genre. While still honoring the murder mystery writers before him with allusions, Borges criticizes the overly analytical detective for his strict interpretations of minor details. Lonnrot, foiling the “dim-witted police” commissioner, meets his
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