Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, both 20th-century South American authors, share themes like the labyrinth and faced political repression. Borges, an Argentinian Anglophile influenced by...

The labyrinth in "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" and "The House of Asterion" symbolizes pride and power, highlighting their pitfalls. In "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths," the Babylonian...

Borges uses the point of view in his story to enhance the similarity of his story to the labyrinth it describes. Like the narrator of many Edgar Allan Poe stories (“The Tell-Tale Heart,” for...

By using intertextual references to Jesus, Schopenhauer, and Shakespeare, Borges reinforces his metafictional undermining of individual identity in "The Shape of the Sword." Borges uses Schopenhauer...

The tone of Borges' "Utopia of a Tired Man" is foreboding and drab, warning of a future devoid of diversity, history, and emotional depth. This dystopian vision presents a society that sacrifices...

the concept of the labyrinth symbolizes the idea of time as a fork-road, where events can diverge from their past or converge with their future. Both Yu Tsun and Captain Madden experience alternate...

Borges uses intertextuality to suggest that history is a kind of performance or play that repeats or plagiarizes itself.