Word: borgesian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preface might make sense, however, if we understand that realism in the Borgesian sense can only be unconventional, because of the very particular and unconventional nature of the universe which it seeks to describe. The "voice" which tells these stories may have new intonations and emphases; but it also shares important elements of the style and thought of the earlier works--Ficciones, published in America in 1962, and Labyrinths, published...
...stories of Labyrinths and Ficciones, then, bestowed a keen sense of reality upon the fantastic, those of Borges' latest "voice" do the opposite: bestowing a sense of the fantastic upon what might very well be real. The old Borgesian fragmentation and permutation of time and of "fact" turn up again. But this time the exotic context is traded for a violent and often absurd mundaneness that is dissettlingly close to home
...film ends, fades to black, and credits appear: David Holzman is played by L. M. Kit Carson; the filmmaker is Jim McBride. What we thought was documentary was the cruelest of lies, for even here screenplay has been passed off as cinema verite . Suddenly, in a numbing Borgesian inversion, the movie turns around on itself. We had come to a final knowledge-filmed life isn't life- only to have even that ripped away. Abruptly, with great shock, David Holzman's Diary comes to mean exactly what it is: we thought we'd found a truth about life from...