Too Much Borges
Sep. 26th, 2004 06:12 amIt's Death Note fanfiction, of course, this time of the ridiculously wordy and crackheaded variey. This is so obviously taken from Borges it's not even funny; if it was any more obvious I'd be committing plagiarism.
SPOILERS for up to chapter 40, but please read it anyway? I've probably made at least five mistakes in the first paragraph alone, because there are WAY too many Big Words in this one.
( Aizawa has a personality now! We must celebrate with fanfiction! )
Aizawa, btw, is the one with the afro. His character is nothing like this because, like I said, this is pure Borges. Also besides the Borges this was written immediately after watchingRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead existentialist Hamlet which, while not a direct influence, certainly put me in a weird mood.
EDIT Very late addendum because this has been bothering me. Though I alluded to Borges and plagiarism when I posted this, I failed to state clearly:
The story structure of Former Investigator -- a short introduction foreshadowing doom, followed by the introduction of a shady character, then a summary of horrible events, concluding with the narrator's disavowel of all involvement -- is lifted from Jorge Luis Borghes' short story Covered Mirrors, published in English in The Aleph and Other Stories (though my copy is from Collected Fictions).
Additionally, the lines
But then, one is always clever in retrospect...The story is short, and dreadfully unpleasant.
and
The shame of ____ is my shame as well, but I have washed my hands of it and do not care anymore.
are from this story.
SPOILERS for up to chapter 40, but please read it anyway? I've probably made at least five mistakes in the first paragraph alone, because there are WAY too many Big Words in this one.
( Aizawa has a personality now! We must celebrate with fanfiction! )
Aizawa, btw, is the one with the afro. His character is nothing like this because, like I said, this is pure Borges. Also besides the Borges this was written immediately after watching
EDIT Very late addendum because this has been bothering me. Though I alluded to Borges and plagiarism when I posted this, I failed to state clearly:
The story structure of Former Investigator -- a short introduction foreshadowing doom, followed by the introduction of a shady character, then a summary of horrible events, concluding with the narrator's disavowel of all involvement -- is lifted from Jorge Luis Borghes' short story Covered Mirrors, published in English in The Aleph and Other Stories (though my copy is from Collected Fictions).
Additionally, the lines
But then, one is always clever in retrospect...The story is short, and dreadfully unpleasant.
and
The shame of ____ is my shame as well, but I have washed my hands of it and do not care anymore.
are from this story.
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