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Tar for Mortar: "The Library of Babel" and the Dream of Totality
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ISBN: 1947447513 1947447505 9781947447516 Year: 2018 Publisher: Brooklyn, NY punctum books

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Tar for Mortar offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature’s greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story “The Library of Babel” is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines, where a library thought to contain all possible permutations of all letters and words and books is plumbed by pious librarians looking for divinely pre-fabricated truths. One must grapple as well with the irony of Borges’s narration, which undermines at every turn its narrator’s claims of the library’s universality, including the very possibility of exhausting meaning through combinatory processing. Borges directed readers to his non-fiction to discover the true author of the idea of the universal library. But his supposedly historical essays are notoriously riddled with false references and self-contradictions. Whether in truth or in fiction, Borges never reaches a stable conclusion about the atomic premises of the universal library — is it possible to find a character set capable of expressing all possible meaning, or do these letters, like his stories and essays, divide from themselves in a restless incompletion? While many readers of Borges see him as presaging our digital technologies, they often give too much credit to our inventions in doing so. Those who elide the necessary incompletion of the Library of Babel compare it to the Internet on the assumption that both are total archives of all possible thought and expression. Though Borges’s imaginings lend themselves to digital creativity (libraryofbabel.info is certainly evidence of this), they do so by showing the necessary incompleteness of every totalizing project, no matter how technologically refined. Ultimately, Basile nudges readers toward the idea that a fictional/imaginary exposition can hold a certain power over technology.


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Massa por Argamassa : A "Libraria de Babel" e o Sonho de Totalidade
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ISBN: 1950192466 1950192458 9781950192465 Year: 2019 Publisher: Brooklyn, NY punctum books

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"Massa por Argamassa apresenta uma exploração profunda de um dos maiores ilusionistas da literatura, Jorge Luis Borges. Seu conto "A Biblioteca de Babel" e um exemplar ilustre de sua capacidade lúdica, embora não somente devido ao mundo invertido que nele e imaginado, no qual uma biblioteca, que supostamente contem todas as combinações possíveis de todas as letras, palavras e livros, e vasculhada por bibliotecários devotos em busca de verdades divinamente pre-fabricadas. Pois tambem e preciso lidar com a ironia da narração de Borges, que constantemente põe em xeque as afirmações do narrador sobre a universalidade da biblioteca, incluindo a própria possibilidade de exaurir os significados possíveis atraves de um processo combinatório. Borges direcionava seus leitores para sua obra de não-ficção para que descobrissem o verdadeiro autor da ideia da biblioteca universal. Mas seus ensaios supostamente históricos são notoriamente repletos de referências falsas e contradições. Seja na verdade ou na ficção, Borges nunca atinge uma conclusão estável sobre as premissas atomistas da biblioteca universal - seria possível encontrar um conjunto de caracteres capaz de expressar todo o significado possível, ou estariam essas letras, assim como suas histórias e ensaios, se multiplicando e dividindo em uma incompletude incansável? Embora muitos leitores de Borges o veem como um presságio de nossas tecnologias digitais, eles muitas vezes dão credito demais a nossas invenções ao fazê-lo. Aqueles que elidem a necessária incompletude da Biblioteca de Babel a comparam com a Internet, assumindo que ambos seriam arquivos totais de todo o pensamento e expressão possíveis. Embora as imaginações de Borges tenham contribuído para a criatividade digital (libraryofbabel.info e certamente uma evidência disto), elas o fazem demonstrando a necessária incompletude de todos os projetos totalizadores, independentemente de seu refino tecnológico. No final, Basile guia os leitores em direção à ideia de que uma exposição fictícia/imaginária possui certo poder sobre a tecnologia"--

Borges : desesperaciones aparentes y consuelos secretos
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ISBN: 9681209567 6075641033 Year: 1999 Publisher: México : El colegio de México. Centro de Estudios Linguisticos y literarios,

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Clásico es aquel libro que una nación o un grupo de naciones o el largo tiempo han decidido leer como si en sus páginas todo fuera deliberado, fatal, profundo como el cosmos y capaz de interpretaciones sin término", escribió con sentido premonitorio Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). En efecto, no ha tenido que transcurrir mucho tiempo para sus lectores atestigüen cómo el ha adquirido esa condición que linda con la mortalidad; que su vasta obra es "capaz de interpretaciones sin término" lo prueban las quince aproximaciones o lecturas críticas de esta recopilación, cuyo origen está en el deseo de conmemorar el centenario del nacimiento del escritor. Los colaboradores de este volumen tienen la certeza absoluta de que pese a la ausencia física de su autor, la literatura de Borges está hoy más presente que nunca, en la tradición cultural de Occidente e incluso más allá de estos estrechos límites geográficos. Estas lecturas críticas están hermanadas por un rasgo esencial: su amor por la obra de Borges, y desean contribuir a comprender mejor una literatura que, felizmente, suele desafiar las capacidades interpretativas de sus lectores.


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Borges, Language and Reality : The Transcendence of the Word
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ISBN: 3319959123 3319959115 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book brings together the work of several scholars to shed light on the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges' complex relationship with language and reality. A critical assumption driving the work is that there is, as Jaime Alazraki has put it, 'a genuine effort to overcome the narrowness that Western tradition has imposed as a master and measure of reality' in Borges' writing. That narrowness is in large measure a consequence of the chronic influence of positivist approaches to reality that rely on empirical evidence for any authentication of what is 'real'. This study shows that, in opposition to such restrictions, Borges saw in fiction, in literature, the most viable means of discussing reality in a pragmatic manner. Moreover, by scrutinising several of the author's works, it establishes signposts for considering the truly complicated relationship that Borges had with reality, one that intimately associates the 'real' with human perception, insight and language.


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Borges' short stories : a reader's guide
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ISBN: 1441122265 1283271893 9786613271891 1441144404 9781441144409 9781441122261 9780826452139 0826452132 9780826442987 0826442986 Year: 2010 Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum,

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This is a Readers Guide to ten of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges' best-known and most widely studied short stories. The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is undoubtedly one of the defining voices of our age. Since the Second World War, his work has had an enormous impact on generations of writers, philosophers and literary theorists. This clear and accessibly written guide offers a close reading of ten of Borges' greatest short stories, seeking to bring out the logic that has made his work so influential. The main section of the guide offers an analysis of such key terms in Borges' work


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Borges, between history and eternity
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ISBN: 1472543009 1283891239 1441169091 9781441169099 9781283891233 9781441197795 1441197796 9781441188113 1441188118 9781472543004 9781441152923 144115292X Year: 2012 Publisher: London New York Continuum

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"That Borges is one of the key figures in twentieth-century literature is beyond debate. The reasons behind this claim, however, are a matter of contention. In Latin America he is read as someone who reorganized the canon, questioned literary hierarchies, and redefined the role of marginal literatures. On the other hand, in the rest of the world, most readers (and dictionaries) tend to identify the adjective Borgesian with intricate metaphysical puzzles and labyrinthine speculations of universal reach, completely detached from particular traditions. One reading is context-saturated, while the other is context-deprived. Oddly enough, these institutional and transcendental approaches have not been pitched against each other in a critical way. Borges, between History and Eternity brings these perspectives together by considering key aspects of Borges's work--the reciprocal determinations of politics, philosophy and literature; the simultaneously confining and emancipating nature of language; and the incipient program for a literature of the Americas."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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The quest for God in the work of Borges
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ISBN: 1282452894 1441129391 9781441129390 9781441185105 1441185100 9781847060532 1847060536 Year: 2009 Publisher: London : Continuum,

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This book argues that the quest for God, though largely unheeded by the critical canon, was a major and enduring preoccupation for Borges. This is shown through careful analysis both of his essays, with their emphasis on his philosophical-theological explorations, and of the narrative articulations which are his stories. It is in the poetry of his middle and closing years, however, that Borges' search is most manifest, as it is no longer obscured. Spanning different periods of his life, and different literary genres, Borges' work attests to a maturing and evolving quest. The book reveals Borge


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Borges, the Jew
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ISBN: 1438461445 9781438461441 9781438461434 1438461437 Year: 2016 Publisher: Albany

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Finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion categoryA Seminary Co-op Notable Book of 2016In this volume, award-winning cultural critic and controversial public intellectual Ilan Stavans focuses his attention on Jorge Luis Borges's fascination with Jewish culture. Despite not being Jewish himself, Borges wrote essays, poems, and stories dealing with various aspects of Jewish history and culture—from the Holocaust to Kabbalah and from Franz Kafka to the creation of the State of Israel. In periods when anti-Semitism in Argentina was on the rise, Borges was clear in his refutation of such xenophobia, and when Jewish writers were hardly available in Spanish, he was among the first to translate them. Throughout Stavans's discussion of these topics he weaves in personal anecdotes on reading Borges for the first time, hearing him read in Mexico, and looking for him in Buenos Aires. No fan of Borges's classic oeuvre will ever see his legacy in the same way after reading this book.


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El legado de Borges
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ISBN: 607462819X 9786074628197 9786074627053 6074627053 Year: 2015 Publisher: México, D.F. : El Colegio de México,

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"El legado de Borges culmina un proceso que inició con el coloquio internacional del mismo nombre, celebrado en El Colegio de México en diciembre de 2011 (con la presencia de honor de María Kodama), como homenaje a Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) en el vigésimo quinto aniversario de su desaparición física. Los autores de este libro son una muestra representativa de los estudiosos de Borges en México y en el extranjero, así como de diversas generaciones que se dedican con fervor a su obra, cuya interpretación y recepción sigue creciendo con el paso de los años. Asimismo, en gran medida el presente volumen está formado por trabajos que analizan aspectos relativamente poco examinados por la crítica, por ejemplo la etapa inicial del escritor, o bien sus nexos con la cultura islámica, que por cierto revelan su asombrosa familiaridad con ésta. En conjunto, se ofrece aquí una serie de sólidas lecturas, elaboradas desde una perspectiva académica que no puede (ni debe) prescindir de la investigación y de la documentación. De este modo, los lectores interesados en la literatura de Borges dispondrán de una mayor cantidad de elementos para aproximarse a su arte verbal (con la certeza de que el conocimiento también contribuye a aumentar el goce literario)"--Página 4 de la cubierta.

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