Norton lectures borges

In the next paragraph we become involved in the magician who works to dream a man and "insert him into reality" and who later learns that he himself is "a mere appearance, dreamt by another. The essence of life and the universe to Borges is an inexplicable maze, a labyrinth: "I have only my perplexities to offer you.

I am nearing seventy, I have given the major part of my life to literature, and I can only offer you--doubts. In "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Terris," a beneficent secret society of scholars formulates, over three centuries, an imaginary planet.

The volume encyclopedia describing Tlon--man's most vast undertaking--is discovered in a Memphis, Tenn. Tlon contains a "doorway which survived so long as it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death" and has a word for "the vague tremulous rose color we see with our eyes closed. The whole universe might be a dream which might be dispelled at any moment.

Borges speaks of "the advantage of briefness. He calls them "footnotes" to hypothetical books, since he believes in "the certitude that everything has been written. In the second Norton lecture Borges assured his audience that the world will never suffer a shortage of metaphors, even though they can all be classified in some ancient, fundamental pattern.

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Most texts have been indexed in order to facilitate research. It is the Foundation's primary goal to help and promote the study of Borges' work and make it still better known throughout the world. Centro Cultural Cervantes. A real masterpiece of technical and cultural savoir faire. You should need to download the program "Shockwave" to admire all its virtualities. Dont miss it! With texts. Dont miss it, even for other authors. Borges Criticism : A new initiative offered by the Borges Center.

Borges Studies on Line es an electronic supplement of Variaciones Borges, with a dynamic archive of academic articles on Borges. The Secret Books : A dialogue between photographes and some Borges texts.

A marvelous page of art by Sean Kernan. Author difficult to be identified : "My friend Borges once described a Zahir, which in Buenos Aires in was a coin, a ten-centavo piece, with the letters 'N' and 'T' and the numeral '2' scatched crudely in the obverse Alfonso de Toro of the University of Leipzig. Internet publications by Prof. Alfonso de Toro.