2014年5月10日火苗讀書會選讀阿根廷作家波赫士(Jorge Luis Borges) 的《死於自己的迷宮的阿本哈坎-艾爾-波哈里》和《兩個國王和兩個迷宮》 ,如題所示是兩篇關於迷宮的短篇小說。迷宮是波赫士的眾多作品經常出現的主題,其中《交叉小徑的花園》和《巴別塔圖書館》非常精彩,日後再分享讀後感想。
Roman mosaic picturing Theseus and the Minotaur. Rhaetia, Switzerland
(為作說明,以下含大量劇透。)
《死於自己的迷宮的阿本哈坎-艾爾-波哈里》 "Abenjacán el Bojarí, Muerto en su Laberinto"
Invisible Work: Borges and Translation, p.135, Efrain Kristal, Vanderbilt University Press, 2002. 原文如下:
I do not write, I rewrite. My memory produces my sentences. I have read so much and I have heard so much. I admit it: I repeat myself. I confirm it: I plagiarize. We are all heirs of millions of scribes who have already written down all that is essential a long time before us. We are all copyists, and all the stories we invent have already been told. There are no longer any original ideas.