How To Use Borges In A Sentence
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Both Bactrian and Pagolak recall the mysterious Ursprache of Borges's Tlön, which contains no nouns but only impersonal verbs, and in which famous poems consist of a single enormous word.
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Borges' characters can similarly be said to envy women their desire that they cannot understand and do not dare explore.
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This makes him sound like Borges or Calvino, and in a sense he is, but with hard science to back him up.
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Like Borges, his writing examines the consequences of abstract theories in the physical world.
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Borges was deep down an old-fashioned liberal, however, who despised the Spanish-American tradition of the caudillo (political strongman) and its vulgar populism.
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Father Brown & remorse beforehand continuous approximation to a perpetual peace a science fiction story about mnemic causation perhaps Borges-like
Archive 2005-08-01
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A counter-argument comes from the Argentinian, Borges, who claimed to be puzzled by his huge North American reputation.
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From the perspective of ideologically marginal Argentine, Borges creatively develops his deconstructionist translation theory which is against tradition, authority and cultural imperialism.
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One of the advantages to having published, in fiction, only vignettes, is the difficulty in reasonably fearing I'll complete lose an audience if ever called upon to read...though I don't recall reading any fiction before an actually present audience* since reading Borges's "Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos" before my senior-year highschool Spanish class, they as startled as the teacher that they could follow it.
ConDFW
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Borges denounced Hitler almost from the start, decrying the arrival of Nazism as a catastrophe for German culture.
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Borges, who plays guitar and sings, is backed by "Binky" the one-named bass player, Lyle
Durangoherald.com
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Borges rejects ‘words that postulate intuitive or angelical insights’, while, for his part, Proust ‘elevates his lack of knowledge to the level of universal truth and imposes it by maxim’.
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He has written a novel in the shadow of Jorge Luis Borges, a ‘novel in essayistic form about the search for the ideal language’.
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We are approaching an almost Borgesian situation in which a global, virtual cinematheque will be available at the spin of an iPod wheel or the click of a mouse.
Archive 2006-01-01
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He belongs, like Borges and a handful of others, to that sacred sect of storytellers (one part sorcerer, one part shaman, one part shape-shifter, one part fabulist) that seem to write in the invisible ink of dream.
Italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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From the perspective of ideologically marginal Argentine, Borges creatively develops his deconstructionist translation theory which is against tradition, authority and cultural imperialism.
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From the perspective of ideologically marginal Argentine, Borges creatively develops his deconstructionist translation theory which is against tradition, authority and cultural imperialism.
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One of the most insightful pieces she published on Borges was "A Postmodern Approach to Fictional History in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and the Asceticism of Ezra Buckley" in which Palin brilliantly deconstructed the notion of history relative to the character, Ezra Buckley, in a way that the late Jacques Derrida wrote, "Je m'em branle!
Mark Axelrod: The Palin Borges Connection; or, What's History Got to Do With It?
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From this pool of imagery, Borges created his favourite form of literature, the fantastic.
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I do know that Borges thought the term ridiculous, and argued that then absolutely all the Western world was Latin, inasmuch as the Roman influence extended over all European cultures.
Languagehat.com: LATIN AMERICA.
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Even the long term valiant effort of Borges to try to reach out of the central region was not enough.
08/06/2006 - 08/13/2006
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She already possesses what Borges' male questers spend a lifetime searching; and while, in the rare instances when those few men witness it, they find its image ‘intolerable’, she opens her arms and welcomes it.
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Mr. Borges said the idea hadn't yet been vetted by the fund's government shareholders, and no formal requests have come from euro-zone members for additional financing.
IMF Considers Plan to Purchase European Bonds
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Don Quixote is the first modern novel, perhaps the most eternal novel ever written and certainly the fountainhead of European and American fiction; here you have Gogol and Dostoevsky, Dickens and Nabokov, Borges and Bellow, Sterne and Diderot in their genetic nakedness, once more taking to the road with the gentleman and the squire, believing the world is what we read and discovering that the world reads us.
Richard C. Morais: Our Knight In Shining Armor
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The minimalist Argentinian writer Borges turns out to be the most important figure in Eco's private literary pantheon.
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It's a little known fact that during Palin's many undergraduate years, when she wasn't davinning while wearing her Magen David, she was a perfervid reader of fiction and one of her favorite authors was Borges and one of her favorite books by Borges was the classic collection, Labyrinths.
Mark Axelrod: The Palin Borges Connection; or, What's History Got to Do With It?
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Your Maid from Mexico, In English and Spanish - filigree the novel with Borgesian metatextuality, accreting a complexity of author and subject, ipseity and frame of reference.
Brit Lit Blogs
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My favorite Borges stories, if you are interested in knowing, are "La busca de Averroes" (which I can't find online anywhere Thanks to Alejandro for pointing out that it is here); Tlön, Uqbar, Orbius Tertius (I find the whole notion of a Nihilartikel fascinating); and El Sur.
Links and Things
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Mr. Borges said the idea hadn't yet been vetted by the fund's government shareholders, and no formal requests have come from euro-zone members for additional financing.
IMF Considers Plan to Purchase European Bonds
