Jorge Luis Borges

much as we would the personality or story of any other character from a movie, book, or play. We also have the ability to manipulate such stories, and consequently, have the ability to manipulate the way the world and others see us. “Borges and I” by Jorge Luis Borges is one of many representations of mankind’s tendency to view one’s life as a drama, in which they themselves are actors, and can manipulate their characteristics. “I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth century typography, the taste…

By looking up at common dictionaries two definitions of the phenomenon, fiction, is given: 1. Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people. 2. Something that is invented or untrue. Fiction is the classification of any ilk of writing propelled by imagination; it varies from play, short stories, novel, novella and so forth. Fiction constitutes an act of creative invention, so that faithfulness to reality is not typically assumed; in other words,…

letter. Carlos Fuentes, famous contemporary writer of Mexico, swears that you can still hear stories of some old foreigner wandering the Mexican landscape. This, paired with Bierce’s own impressive works and history, inspired writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, and of course, Fuentes himself. This is what I believe to lie at the core of Chickamauga; that which we pass on to the next generation. Chickamauga is a piece of anti-war fiction that details a young boy’s fateful…

Solaris problem, Kris Kelvin seems to approach this key eventually while playing with the ocean in the back pages of the novel. The key already-potentially exists – as every written and unwritten book exists in the Library of Babel, constructed by Jorge Luis Borges. Possibility is…

produce its own identity and culture through the world-renowned people that have originated from there. These people include football (soccer) players Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona, ex-president and iconic communist Che Guevara, outstanding poet Jorge Luis Borges, the current president of Argentina Mauricio Marci, and even to the current leader of the Vatican, Pope…

The swimming contest by Benjamin Tammuz is a story of an Arab boy and an Israeli boy. This took place around the time where there was huge tension between the Arabs and the Jews. There had been much division and segregation amongst the two people. Most of the time, the youth is not up to date with any sort of political conflict or racial division that is occurring at the time. Hatred for the other group is a learned behavior that some youth have not learned yet. Such as the two boys in this…

interwoven fabric of literary history. Critics point to this as an indication of postmodernism’s lack of originality and reliance on clichés. On of the best works which represented this technique is “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” by Jorge Luis Borges, with its references to Medieval romances. Another technique used by the postmodernists is Pastiche which means to combine, or "paste" together, multiple elements. It can be a combination of multiple genres to create a unique narrative or to…

Jorge Luis Borges, a 20th century author, declared, "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." Reading is a beautiful paradise that can take a person to a whole new world in a whole new time period. It promotes imagination and stimulates the mind. Over the summer, the sophomores of Oakland Catholic’s Honors World Literature Class received the pleasure of reading three stories: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Oedipus the King by Sophocles.…

Throughout literature history, many works have been cited as influential to literature and society. Works such as John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, and The Holy Bible are accredited as influential pieces of literature. These works have drastically changed today’s society. However, Alf Layla Wa-Layla’s The Thousand and One Nights is not thought of as influential literary piece. The revolutionary ideas this story conveys,…

Death, Another Form of Living “Life and death” is always a thesis that has a lot can be discussed. Various people have various opinions on it. Many authors have written piles of books on this topic as well. In this passage, we use “Carbon”, a chapter from The Periodic Table written by Primo Levi, as a lens to see how the City of God which is written by E.L. Doctorow and “The death of the Moth” which is written by Virginia Woolf, these three articles organize and talk over about the general…