
Borges on Universalism and Nationalism
Borges the Argentine No one is the homeland—it is all of us. May that clear, mysterious fire burn Without ceasing, Continue reading
Borges the Argentine No one is the homeland—it is all of us. May that clear, mysterious fire burn Without ceasing, Continue reading
Hans Holbein’s portrait The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (from 1521, now in the Basel Kunstmuseum) is, Continue reading
“It is abstraction in its precise, literal sense… complete absence of quality, a differentiation purely by quantity and by applicability Continue reading
in a small ghost town, there’s a little arcadewhere the poltergeists play their video games In my previous post I Continue reading
This essay is intended as a series of case studies following the ideas I presented on the “Quixote Sub Specie Continue reading
Todo es mentira, ya verás La poesía es la única verdad Sacar belleza de este caos es virtud – Continue reading
In his story, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” Jorge Luis Borges explores the labyrinth, the writer, and perhaps above all, Continue reading
To me, there’s virtually no doubt that Italo Calvino is a literary genius. Each one of his works create either Continue reading