Funes, the Memorious (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jorge Luis Borges
- First Published: 1944
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: The 1880's
- Setting: The eastern shore of the Uruguay River, in Uruguay
- Principal Characters: Ireneo Funes, The narrator
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Memory, Death or dying, Insomnia
- Locales: Uruguay
The Story
The history of the unfortunate Ireneo Funes is told by an unnamed narrator who, hearing of Funes's death, determines to put something into print about a very remarkable and, in one sense, disquieting man. Although he encountered Funes not more than three times, each meeting stamped itself on the narrator's memory.
The first, he tells the reader, was in February or March of 1884: He and his cousin were riding on horseback to his family's farm. As they rode along, hurrying to outpace a storm, they rode in a lane between high walls. On the top of one of the brick...
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