Jorge Luis Borges

thousand Hamlets, different readers have different understanding to the story. Though the hills may have the special meaning such as pregnancy, we cannot know it actually because the writer did not write specific. “Library of Babel” written by Jorge Luis Borges is the example of no change, no plot and no possibility to make reversal. This short is about the understanding of the universal, the writer just simile the world as a library and describes the details of the library. ”The Aleph” written…

accepting that we don’t know everything and everything is possible” by Isabel Allende. Relevantly, magic realism was practiced in Latin America, it goes beyond reality to express impossible ideas. During the mid-1900s, an Argentinian author, Jorge Luis Borges, wrote the short story “The Circular Ruins”, this story illustrates the dreams of light and darkness. Another Latin American author, Gabriel García Márquez, wrote the short story “Light is Like Water”. He is also known as the “Father of…

by Burton Raffel, “The Battle of Brunanburh,” and the modern lyric by Jorge Luis Borges, “Brunanburh A.D., 937.” Both poems describe the bloody battle scene but despite being about the same event, the two poems have differences. Though both poems are describing the same historical event, they have differing points of…

Both of the narratives “Borges and I” Jorge Luis Borges and “Hole in the Wall” by Etgar Keret employ the device of multiple worlds in their narrative. Borges introduces a multiple world in “Borges and I” through the use of an embedded narrative. According to Abbot, an embedded narrative allows for “another world to open up with its own story and central character” (Abbot 167). An embedded narrative typically unfolds organically from the thoughts of the main character or the voice of the narrator…

“The Aleph” and “The Zahir", both by Jorge Luis Borges, are short stories that contrast each other. “The Aleph” is about an object called named the Aleph that shows everything in the universe. The viewer would see everything without distortion and at every possible angle. “The Zahir” is about an object named the Zahir, which can alter the mind of an individual so he or she think of the Zahir after glancing at it. The individual would slowly go crazy with only the Zahir in mind, and lose all…

Argentinian writer, Jorge Luis Borges, had a ripe adoration of German literature, and this passion is what compelled him to attack the Nazi police state in various essays throughout World War II. This contrast between his love of German culture and his criticism of nazism, as well…

Within Jorge Luis Borges’s short story collection “The Garden of Forking Paths” are the stories Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and The Garden of Forking Paths. Within Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Borges introduces the question of metaphysical time and reality by recounting the events surrounding the mysterious land of Uqbar and its lore surrounding Tlon- the third orb. On the other hand, The Garden of Forking Paths questions the knowledge of the universe and linear time as current scientific…

Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges was removed from the origin of The Bhagavad-Gita by thousands of years and miles, yet his works bear remarkable similarities to The Gita’s teachings. Specifically, Borges’ short stories, “The Immortal” and “The Library of Babel,” reflect and parallel the teachings of the sacred Hindu text, The Bhagavad-Gita, namely, its assertion that desire creates suffering and inhibits the pursuit of knowledge, and its perspective that divinity and spirituality can be found…

Within the delicate brushstrokes of the artist lies an image of vitality and beauty, comprising the portrait of one young and misguided individual. Driven by his desire to fulfill his lustful temptations, he evolves, the man in the frame, into an individual so vile one cannot stand near without inhaling his moral corruption. Physically, the man of the portrait, Dorian Gray, as having sold his soul to retain his current health and beauty, remains ageless and pristine as he continues in the…

Thematically, the common thread among the three short stories “The Secret Miracle” by Jorge Luis Borges , “Journey Back to the Source” by Alejo Carpentier, and Julio Cortazar’s “Continuity of Parks” is the manipulation of time. Each use the cyclical nature of time to tackle a sort of worldly completion. Hladik finishes his book, the reader in “Continuity of Parks” becomes the ultimate reader by being completely absorbed by his book, the house in “Journey Back to the Source” comes full circle and…