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"Funes the Memorious" (original Spanish title Funes el memorioso) [1] is a fantasy short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). First published in La Nación of June 1942, it appeared in the 1944 anthology Ficciones, part two (Artifices). The first English translation appeared in 1954 in Avon Modern Writing No. 2.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (/ ˈ b ɔːr h ɛ s / BOR-hess; [2] Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ⓘ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.
Sarah Rinder, writing to Mosaic Magazine, suggests that Borges expresses a "liking especially for those Jews who have transcended, or even shed, their Jewish identities." [2] The editor mentioned in the essay, Manuel Gleizer, was a librarian, publisher and editor whose bookshop was a meeting point for authors, including Borges. [3]
"A New Refutation of Time" (original Spanish title: "Nueva refutación del tiempo") is an essay by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (written between 1944 and 1946) in which he argues that the negations of idealism may be extended to time.
The story was first published in the March 1946 edition of Los Anales de Buenos Aires as part of a piece called "Museo" credited to "B. Lynch Davis", a joint pseudonym of Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. It was collected later that year in the 1946 second Argentinian edition of Borges' Historia universal de la infamia (A Universal History of ...
Labyrinths (1962, 1964, 1970, 1983) is a collection of short stories and essays by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett.
Dreamtigers (El Hacedor, "The Maker", 1960) is a collection of poems, short essays and literary sketches by the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. Divided fairly evenly between prose and verse, the collection examines the limitations of creativity. Borges regarded Dreamtigers as his most personal work.
Borges begins by noting John Wilkins's absence from the 14th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica and makes the case for Wilkins's significance, highlighting in particular the universal language scheme detailed in his An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668). Wilkins's system decomposes the entire universe of ...