Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

Jorge Luis Borges
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. When we think about books, we tend to imagine those enormous, heavy-looking books that we used to read as children. Not so for this writer. He thinks that novels should be as light as a feather and just as easy to read as a newspaper.

The fact that he says that “novels are ideal planes inserted into the realm of reality” makes us believe that novels are made of paper. They are supposed to be sturdy, but not too heavy. And, they should be easy to understand.

After all, who would want to read something that was hard to understand?

Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories And Other Writings

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