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Memory, as in the Modernist writers like Proust and Mann, is crucial to...

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:45:19 PST

Memory, as in the Modernist writers like Proust and Mann, is crucial to writers of late-modernism like Borges and Beckett. From Funes to many other stories in The Book of Sand, the failure or breakdown of memory and the linearity of time is a major theme for the induction of the magic-real for Aleph. Memory is important to the story in many ways. The love for Beatriz Viterbo that the narrator Borges has is itself a matter of memory. She has...

Borges's short stories are associated with the most brilliant use of...

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:24:06 PST

Borges's short stories are associated with the most brilliant use of intermingling fantasy and reality in the whole of 20th century literature. His fictional labyrinths evoke the mythical and fabular so often and yet underneath all that fairy-tale like gleam, there is a dangerously gaping void which is the chaotic and often incomprehensible world that he envisages. In a story called Borges nad I, he makes Borges a character. But that is not to...

In "The Aleph," what is the role of memory?

Sat, 9 May 2009 18:17:40 PST

In "The Aleph," what is the role of memory?

This is a short-story that is deep and full of metaphysical elements....

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:28:57 PST

This is a short-story that is deep and full of metaphysical elements. There are many themes that can be expanded and analyzed in a thesis essay. The most important is the idea of time and space. There is a lot to think about in regards to these abstract concepts. Borges creates the possibility of a point in space where past, present, and future--everything in our human existence can be seen, but there are very morbid...

Why did the author, Borges decide to be a character in the story?

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:17:32 PST

Why did the author, Borges decide to be a character in the story?

Suggestions for Thesis: The Aleph

Sun, 9 Dec 2007 18:41:41 PST

The Aleph and Borges: I was wondering for any suggestions for my thesis. I'm stuck, I can use any help!My thesis can be over any aspect of the story and Borges. Please help!!