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Tar for Mortar : "the Library of Babel" and the Dream of Totality - Jonathan Basile

Tar for Mortar

"the Library of Babel" and the Dream of Totality

By: Jonathan Basile

Paperback | 13 March 2018

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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

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