Highbrow, dandy, city slickerfunes did not utter those insulting words, but i know with reasonable certainty that to him i represented those mis fortunes. Borges, it is known, was fascinated by encyclopedias and by the naturalis historia perhaps the first encyclopedia in history, which in fact he mentions in funes the memorious. I know of borges from the mail and see his name on a list of professors or in a biographical dictionary. English translations of funes the memorious by borges. The mississippi is a broadchested river, a dark and infinite brother of the parana, the uruguay, the amazon, and the orinoco. Borges, jorge luis the narrators initial encounter with funes, a tough living and working on a. Funes asks the narrator borges for any latin text, and borges obliges with volume vii of plinys encyclopedia and quicherats thesaurus, just so. My high school senior year english teacher was kind of an odd fellow, though i now believe he relished and even cultivated the wacky. Borges, jorge luis the narrators initial encounter with funes, a. Viana rated it it jorgw ok mar 15, the narrator argues that a positional number system is a better tool for abstraction.
My deplorable status as an argentine will prevent me from indulging in a dithyramb, an obligatory genre in uruguay whenever the subject is an uruguayan. He reveals that, since his fall from the horse, he perceives everything in full detail and remembers it all. I remember him i have no right to utter this sacred verb, only one man on earth had that right and he is dead. Complete summary of jorge luis borges funes, the memorious. Segun borges, esta pieza literaria es una larga metafora del insomnio. The first english translation appeared in 1954 in avon modern writing no. There are, of course, in spite of borges y yo, far more than two such homonyms. He could compare the setting of the clouds that he saw one day, with the veins on the cover of a ireneo funes, the protagonist, borves an accident, was bestowed with the absolute memory and the keenest perception.
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