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Dates: during 1970-1970
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As a student in Europe during World War I, Borges was greatly influenced by the Symbolist poets and Ultraism, a literary offshoot of Dadaism. Later, back in Argentina, he wrote poetry and essays for avant-garde journals, and edited anthologies of Argentine literature, including a book of detective stories. But...
Like the subsequent stories brought out under the title Ficciones, the short story Tlön is a form of metaphysical bemusement. In Tlön, a whole new planet is willed into being by a group of scientists, artists and philosophers. One of the instruments of the creation is...
In effect, Borges creates literary logarithms that raise base ideas to exhilarating heights. Funes the Memorious posits a man crippled by a memory so perfect that he must devise a system of enumeration to handle the infinite series of indiscriminate recollections that play on his mind. Funes is incapable of...
In such stories Borges is playing with philosophy-Schopenhauer's concepts from The World as Will and Idea, Bishop Berkeley's assertion that existence is dependent upon individual perception; Hume's denial of the existence of absolute space. For Borges' admirers, the delicious point is simply...
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