From an ongoing, perhaps infinite review:
9. The Book of Sand (El Libro de Arena)
Jorge Luis Borges tells a brief vignette of a Bible salesman, a stranger who, coming to his door, sells him a book with no beginning and no end: neither a first page can be found, nor a last, no matter how carefully it is opened. The book is written in an indecipherable language, and no pages are numbered in any sequence. There are illustrations, crude and childish, accompanying the unreadable, uncountable, useles...
Published on April 14, 2010 18:09