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Las Ruinas Circulares (2000)

by Jorge Luis Borges(Favorite Author)

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review 1: LifeJorge Luis Borges tells the story of a man who dreams in his short text “The Circular Ruin”. In this story we follow the protagonist into the dream where we get to see the creation of a man. This man grows up and we follow him through the early stages of his life. At the end, he realizes that he is a projection of the protagonists dream and with a great twist we get to uncover that our main character, which is nameless is also nothing more than a projection of another man’s dream. Although, many would argue that this story is about reality, one could argue that the main focus is on life itself. However, to really uncover the mysteries of this story one has to define reality. According to the famous author, Philip K Dick, reality is that “which; when you stop ... morebelieving in it, doesn’t go away”. This quote gives us an understanding of what reality is. Applying this to the story confirms the statement; As soon as the protagonist realizes that he is a projection he stops believing making his life and the life of the short story come to an abrupt ending. Therefore, one could draw the conclusion that the protagonist of the story was not real in the sense of which he only was a projection of another character’s dream. In addition to reality there is life. Reality is life, and life is reality. It is hard to talk about one of them without mentioning the other. This is what Borges is doing. He is using reality as a “head fake” for life. Since the dawn of man we have tried to figure out our reality, birth and meaning on this planet. There are many religions that try to answer these questions. But they do not always succeed in giving a satisfied answer. In the short story Borges takes away the focus of reality and puts it on the birth of man; “Almost immediately, he dream of a beating heart. He dreamt it as active, warm, secret, the size of a closed fist of carnet color in the penumbra of a human body as yet without face or sex; with minute love he dreamt it, for fourteen lucid nights”. This quote gives an understanding on how Borges looked at life. Life was something beautiful without face or sex. Therefore, he goes on to emphasize the importance of life and the importance of not knowing how life was born, only how it looks like. A parallel to this is a magic act. During the magic act the audience is amazed by the tricks of the magician and they are kept amazed until the magician reveals how he did the tricks. Thus leaving the audience struggling with the fact if it is better to be amazed in the name of the unknown, or know everything making you immune to surprises and emotions. In conclusion, I would like to point out the importance of not asking to many questions. This is Borges main point; to not focus on the birth and death of life. We should not be focusing on how we were made or what happens when we die. The last sentence in Borges story explains it very well: “with relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understand that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another”. The story ends there suggesting that our lives could also come to an abrupt ending if we find out the truth. So why not stop asking questions, and look at life for what it truly is; absolutely beautiful!
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