And Dying, Julio Cortázar, And Horacio Quiroga

Introduction: Identity and locale both are topics that humans struggle to understand philosophically, and these are topics that are associated with the purpose of life and living when humans have the inevitable death somewhere in their lifetime. In literary works by Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and Horacio Quiroga, they all published several short stories that exhibit common topics such as death, origin, and identity that humans struggle to completely comprehend with. Analyzing these works may give insight to better understand humans and the purpose of life which gives humanities its purpose.
Thesis: Death and dying, locale, and identity are all topics that form multiple themes in Borges’, Cortázar’s, and Quiroga’s short stories to better