He learns that ireneo funes has meanwhile suffered a horseback riding accident and is now hopelessly crippled. Highbrow, dandy, city slickerfunes did not utter those insulting words, but i know with reasonable certainty that to him i represented those mis fortunes. Borges, it is known, was fascinated by encyclopedias and by the naturalis historia perhaps the first encyclopedia in history, which in fact he mentions in funes the memorious. The situation of jorge luis borges is, however, quite different. Funes the memorious and other cases of extraordinary. The first english translation appeared in 1954 in avon modern writing no.
The unnamed narrator recallshe hesitates to use this ghostly verb 107 in the presence of funess memory, in every sense of the wordthe dialogue he had with funes, a young man from fray bentos in present day uruguay, a half century ago, 111 as an invited written dithyramb in his memory. Complete summary of jorge luis borges funes, the memorious. Funes asks the narrator borges for any latin text, and borges obliges with volume vii of plinys encyclopedia and quicherats thesaurus, just so. Jorge luis borges 18991986 was an argentine poet, essayist, and author of short stories. Pedro leandro ipuche has written that funes was a precursor of the race of supermena maverick and vernacular i will not argue the point, but one must not forget that he was also a street. En cuanto a borges, alude repetidas veces al infinito en sus cuentos. My high school senior year english teacher was kind of an odd fellow, though i now believe he relished and even cultivated the wacky. He could compare the setting of the clouds that he saw one day, with the veins on the cover of a ireneo funes, the protagonist, borves an accident, was bestowed with the absolute memory and the keenest perception. Please analyze funes, the memorious by jorge luis borges. Funes il memorioso di jorge luis borges, di stefano tedeschi. English translations of funes the memorious by borges. Jorge luis borges cultura clasica memoria mnemotecnia retorica.
Commentary the consequences for funes of his precise memory are interesting, particularly kemorioso one considers that experiment of nature that a. Descargar cuentos completos jorge luis borges en pdf, epub. Ireneo lived with his mother, at the edge of the country house of the laurels. Aug 08, 2019 only jorge luis borges, the acclaimed master of metaphysical brevity, can. Segun borges, esta pieza literaria es una larga metafora del insomnio.
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