Tar For Mortar
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Author | : Jonathan Basile |
Publisher | : punctum books |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1947447505 |
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TAR FOR MORTAR offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature's greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story "The Library of Babel" is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines, where a library thought to contain all possible permutations of all letters and words and books is plumbed by pious librarians looking for divinely pre-fabricated truths. One must grapple as well with the irony of Borges's narration, which undermines at every turn its narrator's claims of the library's universality, including the very possibility of exhausting meaning through combinatory processing. Borges directed readers to his non-fiction to discover the true author of the idea of the universal library. But his supposedly historical essays are notoriously riddled with false references and self-contradictions. Whether in truth or in fiction, Borges never reaches a stable conclusion about the atomic premises of the universal library - is it possible to find a character set capable of expressing all possible meaning, or do these letters, like his stories and essays, divide from themselves in a restless incompletion? While many readers of Borges see him as presaging our digital technologies, they often give too much credit to our inventions in doing so. Those who elide the necessary incompletion of the Library of Babel compare it to the Internet on the assumption that both are total archives of all possible thought and expression. Though Borges's imaginings lend themselves to digital creativity (libraryofbabel.info is certainly evidence of this), they do so by showing the necessary incompleteness of every totalizing project, no matter how technologically refined. Ultimately, Basile nudges readers toward the idea that a fictional/imaginary exposition can hold a certain power over technology.
Author | : Jonathan Basile |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781947447516 |
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Total Pages | : 1326 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Author | : Jorge Luis Borges |
Publisher | : Penguin Modern Classics |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Argentine literature |
ISBN | : 9780141183022 |
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Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In THE TOTAL LIBRARY, more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time in one volume - all in superb new translations. More than a hundred of the pieces have never previously been published in English. THE TOTAL LIBRARY presents Borges at once as a deceptively self-effacing guide to the universe and as the inventor of a universe that is an indispensible guide to Borges
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Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Building |
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Author | : United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Painting, Industrial |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Infantry |
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Author | : Carl Lindblad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Jorge Luis Borges |
Publisher | : Pocket Paragon |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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"Not many living artists would be sufficiently brave or inspired to attempt reflecting in art what Borges constructs in words. But the detailed, evocative etchings by Erik Desmazieres provide a perfect counterpoint to the visionary prose. Like Borges, Desmazieres has created his own universe, his own definition of the meaning, topography and geography of the Library of Babel. Printed together, with the etchings reproduced in fine-line duotone, text and art unite to present an artist's book that belongs in the circle of Borges's sacrosanct Crimson Hexagon - "books smaller than natural books, books omnipotent, illustrated, and magical.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Edward H. Knight |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 970 |
Release | : 2024-03-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385390354 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.