The Library of Babel (Pocket Paragon)
by Jorge Luis Borges
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Read in November, 2007
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Borges's short piece (the entire text is approximately twenty pages) revolves around the conceit of the library as a metaphor for the universe; each room a hexagon lined on four sides with shelves, and then the librarian's quarters (all are librarians) and then the doorway into the next identical room. It is the same both up and down and on all sides, an infinite regression of rooms filled with books, an infinite amount of books, and the sum of the library containing every permutation of letter...more
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کتابخانه بابل با ترجمه کاوه سید حسینی حدودا 260صفحه است.
در مورداین اثر همین بس که یکی از گرانقدر ترین مجموعه های داستان کوتاه زمانه است.خود بورخس شخصا علاقه ای به رمان نداشت.در این داستانهای کوتاه خواننده به قدری درگیر میشود که تا مدتها نمیتواند ذهنش را متمرکز به موضوع دیگری ک...more
در مورداین اثر همین بس که یکی از گرانقدر ترین مجموعه های داستان کوتاه زمانه است.خود بورخس شخصا علاقه ای به رمان نداشت.در این داستانهای کوتاه خواننده به قدری درگیر میشود که تا مدتها نمیتواند ذهنش را متمرکز به موضوع دیگری ک...more
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Read in April, 2004
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Fans of Jorge Borges, fantasy readers, sci fi readers, anyone with an underappreciated imagination
Easily one of the strangest books I've ever read. I actually ordered it by accident, thinking it was an anthology. But actually this entire slender volume is devoted to one Borges short story, complete with beautiful etchings showing that his impossible library is actually possible. While it's not worth the cover price for everyone, anyone who dismissed his fictional library should flip through these pages and see that he wasn't writing flippantly. As "Library of Babel" was possibly Bo...more
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بورخس لامصب همچین تو رو توی هزار توهایش درگیر میکند که هیچ چیزی نمیتواند تو روئ از اون دنیاهای پیچیده بیرون کند...شاهکار ادبیات قرن بیست...مکاملا برخلاف مارکز که هیچ علاقه ای بهش ندارم
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Read in April, 2008
All the metaphysics you'll ever need, in a slim, little parable. (Like "Where's Waldo" but instead of a striped cap, look for Wittgenstein's tautologies, McKenna's "cosmic giggle," quantum super-position, and the Fibonacci Sequence.)
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چند باره خواندن هزار تو ها و کتابخانه های بی پایان بورخس همیشه وسوسه ام میکند.
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The most efficient parable for life and the universe ever written. Also contains proof of the existence of a god (in my opinion).
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Borges understood that the purpose of fantasy and imagination was to say something about reality, not to escape from it.
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I have been wanting to read this ever since we listened to part of Library: An Unquiet History carpooling to class.
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this is incredible. an amazing story in picture book format. a beautiful book but impossible to find.
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I started reading this one and then I lost it. I never picked up another copy, but it's on my "To do" list.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this in a graduate course on bibliography and research.
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