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He was one of the first authors to mix high culture with low, merging such popular genres as science fiction and the detective story with heady philosophical discourses on authorship, reality and. Home literary criticism magic realism characteristics surrealism jorge luis borges, the library of babel. One of the free sides leads to a narrow hallway which opens onto another gallery, identical to the first and to all the rest. Thematic analysis borges was influenced by the surrealist movement that developed in europe in the 1920s, and this passage is evidence of that influence. The library of babel is a short story by argentine author and librarian jorge luis borges 18991986, conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library. The first edition of the novel was published in 1941, and was written by jorge luis borges. The main characters of this poetry, fiction story are. Jorge luis borges is currently considered a single author. Jorge luis borges jorge francisco isidoro luis borges kbe 24 august 1899 14 june 1986, was an argentine shortstory writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in spanishlanguage literature. Librarian jorge luis borges wrote the short story the library of babel in argentina in 1941. Consequently perhaps, he is not as widely read as he should be.
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