LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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The short work speaks of the daunting search for truth and knowledge.
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It is obsessed with the descriptions of an endless and ultimately incomprehensible library.
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Borges takes great pains to show how the key to understanding the library is reason.
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The library is analogous to the universe.
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Detailed explanation-1: -So, the Library of Babel is a metaphor for the universe – or, indeed, in Borges’ fictional world, it is the universe. Is Borges suggesting that the world around us is like a vast library, which we are trying to decipher?
Detailed explanation-2: -The Library of Babel also includes several other themes commonly found in Borges’s work: infinity, language and order vs. randomness. The Library, which is composed of a seemingly endless number of galleries, is an allegory for the universe. The books within the galleries are incomprehensible.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Library of Babel, a website created by Jonathan Basile, emulates an English-language version of Borges’ library. An algorithm he created generates a “book” by iterating every permutation of 29 characters: the 26 English letters, space, comma, and period.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Library of Babel, while described in orderly, geometric terms, is in reality a three-dimensional endless labyrinth. Though it is reminiscent of any large Library the reader may have used, it defies logical sense through its sheer size.