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The Aleph by Paulo Coelho

Jorge Luis Borges

Top 10 books I enjoyed reading in 2022 most. My readings this year have been dominated by Jorge Luis Borges and Marvel comic books. In the first half of the year, I read five Borges works, and I was fascinated by the Borges' creativity and use of intertextuality. I read Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, in two huge tomes, which has become the longest book I've ever read. In the summer, I took a long break from reading classics and Instagram because of some exams I had. Having always been a Marvel Comics fan, I became more interested in reading comics than ever during that time I took break. If I exclude each and every comic book issue I've read, I've read 26 books this year (27 with Les Misérables' second tome); if I include them, I've over 250. Though I've found Marvel's epic Dark Phoenix Saga perfect, Borges' astounding story collection The Aleph, especially for the namesake story, tops my list this year… Happy new year 2023 to you all, hope it will be better than the preceding one! 🎉🎊 Here's the ranking of my top 10, with the months I read them: 1. #TheAleph by Jorge Luis Borges (January) 2. #DarkPhoenixSaga by Chris Claremont & John Byrne (November-December) 3. #EthanFrome by Edith Wharton (January) 4. #LesMisérables by Victor Hugo (April-May) 5. #TheBookOfSand by J. L. Borges (May) 6. #Dubliners by James Joyce (February) 7. #TheQueenOfSpades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin (January) 8. #TheMaker by J. L. Borges (February) 9. #StrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde and Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson (October) 10. #TheTurnOfTheScrew and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James (October-November) ~ Honorable Mentions: • X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills by Chris Claremont & Brent Anderson (December) • Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (May) • The Signal-Man (and two other stories) by Charles Dickens (October) • A Universal History of Infamy by J. L. Borges (March) • Evelina by Frances Burney (March) • Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (December) ~ #Alef #JorgeLuisBorges #Borges #MarvelComics #Marvel #comicbook #book #books #bookstagram #reading #read #bibliophile #instabook #literature #bookworm #booknerd #2022 #top10of2022 #igreads #classics https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm0teuxIerW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

A short story collection, #TheBookOfSand is sublime, fascinating and dreamy. Thanks to #Borges's matchless imagination, pithy but powerful style of narration, it doesn't fail to surprise, excite, baffle, and impress, though the themes and motifs of the stories, which are almost wholly metaphysical, metafictional, mythological, surreal and utopic, are not much different than those in #Ficciones and #TheAleph. Totally riveting and surprising three stories, "#ThereAreMoreThings", "#AvelinoArredondo" and "#TheMirrorAndTheMask", are my favourites in this book. ~ Bir kısa öykü koleksiyonu olan #KumKitabı, olağanüstü, büyüleyici ve rüya gibi. Öykülerin neredeyse tümüyle metafiziksel, metakurgusal, mitolojik, gerçeküstü ve ütopik olan temaları ve motifleri Ficciones ve #Alef'tekilerden çok farklı olmasalar bile, Borges'in eşsiz benzersiz hayalgücü, kısa ve öz ama kuvvetli anlatım tarzı sayesinde şaşırtmayı, heyecanlandırmayı, kafa karıştırmayı ve hayran bırakmayı başarıyor. Tümüyle sürükleyici ve şaşırtıcı üç hikaye, "There Are More Things", "Avelino Arredondo" ve "Ayna ve Maske" bu kitaptaki favorilerim. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ «“En büyük kahramanlıklar sözcüklere dökülmezse parlaklıklarını yitirirler. Utkumu ve övgümü türküleştirmeni istiyorum. Ben Aeneas olacağım, sen de benim Virgilius'um...”» ("Ayna ve Maske"den) ~ «“The brightest deeds lose their luster if they are not minted in words. I desire you to sing my victory and my praises. I shall be Æneas; you shall be my Virgil...”» (from "The Mirror and the Mask", Andrew Hurley translation) ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ «Tek bir suçlu bile yoktur: Tanrısal Bilgelik'in çizdiği planın bilinçli ya da bilinçsiz uygulayıcısı olmayan tek bir kişi yoktur. Şimdi hepsi Gurur'u paylaşıyor.» ("Otuzlar Mezhebi"nden) ~ «There is not one lone guilty man; there is no man that does not carry out, wittingly or not, the plan traced by the All-Wise. All mankind now shares in Glory.» (from "The Sect of the Thirty", Andrew Hurley trans.) ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ #JorgeLuisBorges #ElLibroDeArena #TheSectOfTheThirty #TheNightOfTheGifts #Ulrikke #TheCongress #TheOther #TheDisk #AWearyMansUtopia #Undr #TheBribe #AynaVeMaske #book #books #read #reading #literature #bookstagram #instabook #bookworm https://www.instagram.com/p/CeGJAsLAgKP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I'm reading these two at the same time and greatly enjoying them. Some of you know, I love Marvel and I want to enjoy #TheMarvelBook longer, so I'll be reading it alongside other books simultaneously for a while. Although these two books are of different genres and seem irrelevant to each other, both of them include mutual themes and topics: both touch upon imaginary worlds, parallel universes, doubles, immortality and infinity, though in different ways. My favourite stories among the ones I've read so far in #TheAleph are "The House of Asterion" (I absolutely recommend to those who know the myth of "Theseus and the Minotaur"), and "The Zahir". ~ Bu ikisini aynı anda okuyorum ve büyük keyif alıyorum. Bazılarınız bilir, Marvel'ı severim ve The Marvel Book'un keyfini daha uzun süre çıkarmak istiyorum, o yüzden onu bir süreliğine diğer kitaplarla eş zamanlı olarak okuyacağım. Bu iki kitap farklı türden olmalarına ve birbirleriyle alakasız görünmelerine rağmen ikisi de ortak temalar ve konular içeriyor: farklı şekillerde olsa bile, ikisi de hayali dünyalara, paralel evrenlere, ikili varoluşlara [klon misali], ölümsüzlüğe ve sonsuzluğa değiniyor. #Alef'te şu ana dek okuduğum öykülerin arasında favorilerim "Asterion'un Evi" ("Theseus ile Minotauros" mitini bilenlere kesinlikle tavsiye ederim) ve "Zahir". ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ «... Belki de anlattığım öyküler tek bir öyküdür. Bu demir paranın turası da, yazısı da, Tanrı biliyor ya, aynıdır.» ("Savaşçı ve Tutsağın Öyküsü"nden) ~ «... It may be that the stories I have told are one and the same story. The obverse and reverse of this coin are, in the eyes of God, identical.» (from "Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden", translated by Andrew Hurley) ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ «“İnanır mısın Ariadne?”» dedi Teseus. “Minotauros kendini savunmadı bile.”» ("Asterion'un Evi"nden) ~ «“Can you believe it, Ariadne?" said Theseus. “The Minotaur scarcely defended itself.”» (from "The House of Asterion", trans. by Andrew Hurley) ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ #Borges #JorgeLuisBorges #Aleph #Zahir #AsterionunEvi #stories #Marvel #MarvelComics #MarvelBook #funkopop #popfunko #book #books #read #reading #literature #bookstagram #instabook #booknerd https://www.instagram.com/p/CYZNek6otTl/?utm_medium=tumblr

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