One of the main ideas in “The Book of Sand” is infinity and how it can not be defined and grasped by the human knowledge. An example of how infinity can not be defined and grasped by the human knowledge, is when the salesman tells the author to find the first page and he fails to locate the first page. The author says, “Every time I tried, a number of pages came between the cover and my thumb. It was as if they kept growing from the book” (Borges, 2). This idea of infinite pages gives the story a magical realism. The author shortly says after that, “In a voice that was not mine, I barely managed to stammer, ‘This can’t be.’” (Borges, 2). This confuses the author, because he can’t grasp the idea of the infinite amount of pages and not being
