Jorge Borges assignment one

The short stories which Jorge Luis Borges creates aren't your typical childhood short story. I was thinking more along the line of Dr. Sues or Mother Goose but this was not like that at all. He writes in a totally different manner that has no clear plot. The short stories are very hard to keep up with. The stories don't seem to be stories at all but much more like commentary on a vast variety of other actual short stories. He seems to place all these ideals into one chapter which I guess he considers a short story. The footnotes at the bottom provide more clarity than the pages above. It seems to be a better idea to read the footnotes than the actual book.