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Even stronger has been work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whose reputation is based chiefly on the complex novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. This novel's approach to the world grows out of the introspective fantasy to Jorge Luis Borges, who is perhaps the only original, yet uncommitted, modern Lating...
-Jorge Luis Borges, The Fearful Sphere of Pascal
By contrast, Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges is a private artificer. Now that his increasing blindness prevents him from working them out on paper, he describes to Interviewer Guibert how he composes his enigmatic short stories and poems, learning them by heart in silence before confiding them to a...
The Spider's Stratagem, for example, has a serene mystery to it -- perhaps emanating from the film's roots in a Borges story -- that will not allow deep penetration into the viewers' lives. The film explores psychological questions, but does so mainly to raise broader questions about heroism and martyrdom...
Less political, more lyrical than his later work, less self-conscious, and more romantic, The Spider's Strategem is a film of a kind Bertolucci is unlikely to make again. Structured around Jorge Luis Borges's little story "The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero," it is a film...