LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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Joyce’s “The Dead”
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Hemingway’s “My Old Man”
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Woolf’s “A Haunted House”
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Borges’ “The Library of Babel”
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the short story The Library of Babel, the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges constructs a metaphorical replica of the universe, both celebrating and teasing the cosmologists of his time.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Presently, the common consensus is that ‘The Library is a sphere whose exact center is any hexagon and whose circumference is unattainable. ‘ Each wall inside the Library has five bookshelves, and each shelf has thirty-two books, each having 410 pages, with each page having forty lines with eighty letters in each line.
Detailed explanation-4: -Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel” imagines a universal library containing every possible permutation of letters, every book that ever has been or could be, drowned out by endless pages unintelligible in any known language.
Detailed explanation-5: -"The Library of Babel” (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set.