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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

November 11 2012, 9:23pm | Comments
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The Making of The Rings of Saturn

April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments
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Borges: The Task of Art

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Bookmark Manguel, Muse of Impossibility
One day in December 1919, the twenty-year-old Jorge Luis Borges, during a short stay in Seville, wrote a letter, in French, to his friend Maurice Abramowicz in Geneva, in which, almost…

October 21 2010, 3:52am | Comments
Bookmark The Mind's I
Now available for free online: The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul (ISBN 0-553-34584-2) is a 1981 book composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C.…

August 16 2010, 3:30am | Comments
Bookmark Borges on Pleasure Island
Little is quite as dull as literary worship; this essay on Borges is thus happily doomed. One finds oneself tempted toward learned-sounding inadequacies like: His work combines the elegance of mathematical…

July 1 2010, 2:17am | Comments
Bookmark Technologies of Culture: The Archive
"'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind…

February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments
Bookmark The Wall and the Books
by Jorge Luis Borges I read, in past days, that the man who ordered the construction of the nearly infinite Wall of China was that First Emperor, Shih Huang Ti, who…

December 13 2009, 3:17pm | Comments
Bookmark Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man
Directed by Philippe Molins - Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the life…

August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments

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