Ficciones Essays

  • Deliberate Alienation: Surrealism and Magical Realism Critical thinking is a terrible thing.

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    best... ... middle of paper ... ...e Old Man and the Wormhole." Available online: http://justice.loyola.edu/~mcoffey/ce/wormhole.html , May 9, 2000. Beckett, Samuel. Waiting For Godot. (New York: Grove Press, 1956.) Borges, Jorge Luis. Ficciones. (New York: Grove Press, 1962.) García Màrquez, Gabriel, trans. Gregory Rabassa. One Hundred Years of Solitude. (New York: Harper & Row, 1998.) Magritte, René. Painting: Le Prêtre Marié (The Married Priest). 1961. Available online: http://www

  • Order, Memory, and Anxiety in Borges' Fiction

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    Order, Memory, and Anxiety in Borges' Fiction The fundamental questions of how and why we read have an infinitude of answers, none of which entirely 'do the job', simply because they bear too closely upon the automatic, (and therefore, to us, secret) processes of the mind; the act of reading is too closely related to the act of living in the world for us to comprehend definitively. There are few writers who understand and exploit this primal link more persistently than Jorge Luis Borges. One

  • Memory, Imagination, and Consciousness in Funes the Memorious and Meursault

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    Memory, Imagination, and Consciousness in Funes the Memorious and Meursault Consciousness separates humans from sense perceiving “garbage heaps.” Jorge Luis Borges, in “Funes the Memorious,” and Albert Camus, in “The Stranger,” explore the causes of consciousness. They are philosophers who write fiction to answer the question, “What makes us aware?” An imperfect memory and imagination define our reality. Funes can be aware of other realities because has a perfect memory. Meursault reveals that

  • The Babylon Lottery Analysis

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    The Future of an Illusion and “The Babylon Lottery” When humanity creates a system it may be for the purpose of gratifying one’s instinctual desires or for controlling one’s rather barbaric tendencies. The occurrence of events beyond an individual’s control is often determined by a higher supernatural power. In “The Babylon Lottery” by Jorge Luis Borges, the narrator introduces us to a capricious lottery that dictates the life chances of those living in Babylon. This lottery transitions in its rules

  • Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges

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    would be dull and meaningless. Life would be so different without dreams, since they are what motivate humans to keep on moving forward in order to achieve their goals. This is what Jorge Luis Borges is trying to explain to the reader in the book Ficciones which is very confusing, but also very deep in meaning. These stories demonstrate a theme of reality vs. fiction which is fascinating because in many of the readings fantasy is required at some point to accomplish a purpose or goal. Each unique

  • Imagery In 'The Garden Of Forking Paths'

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    Interestingly, the story in the middle of the collection titled “The Garden of Forking Paths” in Ficciones is “The Circular Ruins,” in which the wizard escapes to the ruined temple to dream. The Pavilion and the ruins are not only structurally parallel; they are thematically similar as well because both serve as places where Borges’ characters come to

  • The Implementation of Fantasy and its Effects within “The South”

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    Ficciones, a collection of short stories written by Jorge Luis Borges, contains several works in which the motif of fantasy is repeatedly incorporated into the storyline. With this, Borges plays with the idea of fantasy being reality and reality being fantasy. He accomplishes the incorporation by setting a realistic plotline and relatively easy to follow story and releases whimsical, yet minuscule, symbols and ideas into the plot to create a fantastical twist. A prime example of such work is “The

  • Jorge Luis Borges

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    Jorge Luis Borges possesses writing styles unlike others of his time. Through his series of works, he has acquired the title of "the greatest living writer in the Spanish language." The particular example of work that I read, titled "Ficciones," was a definite portrayal of his culture. The book was not merely a list of facts from his birth country; instead the real cultural knowledge came from his writing style. The book consisted of two parts; each part was broken up into stories. Each one, despite

  • Argentina Essay

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    Argentina Argentina, officially known as the Argentine Republic or Republica Argentina, is a country occupying the most southern portion of South America. For many foreigners, especially Europeans, Argentina has presented the traditional New World image of a land of romance and opportunity. It received its name, "roughly translated as 'land of silver' or 'silvery one,' from the Spanish explorers of the 16th century who were lured there by rumors

  • garden of forking paths

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    Jorge Luis Borges, author of Ficciones, is known for his profound intellect of fantasy and creation of labyrinths through his works and writings. Readers often experience a journey through his complex mind, but the way that he achieves this is through his unique and carefully crafted frameworks that include reoccurring motifs and symbols. One of his seventeen short stories is a narrative of a Chinese spy of the German army named Yu Tsun, who is trying to send a message within a limited time interval

  • An Analysis Of 'Una Estacion De Amor'

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    to fit the theme, or at other times in retrospect, grouping previous works by motifs which occurred otherwise sporadically. Quiroga’s Cuentos , though all entirely distinct, all relate back to the same three motifs of love, death and madness. The Ficciones are strung together self explanatorily, by the fact that Borges heavily applies fiction and surrealism to these short stories, and in a way that is what defines them. It seems that to collect a group of short stories by common theme might contradict

  • Borge's Use of Berkeley's Idealism

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    defend agnosticism and reinforce the uncertainty surrounding God. Works Cited Berkeley, George. Principles of Human Knowledge. London: Penguin, 1988. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. London: Penguin, 1988. Borges, Jorge Luis. Ficciones. Trans. Emecé Editores. New York: Grove Press, 1962. Dunham, Lowell and Ivar Ivask. The Cardinal Points of Boges. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. Muehlmann, Robert G. Berkeley’s Metaphysics. University Park: The Pennsylvania State

  • Religious Practices of Santeria

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    such as Santeria. Work Cited: Sandoval, Mercedes Cros. Worldview, the Orichas, and Santería: Africa to Cuba and beyond. Gainesville: U of Florida, 2006. Print. Duncan, Cynthia. Unraveling the Real: The Fantastic in Spanish-American Ficciones. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2010. Print. Dalmau, Felipe, Obatalá, Changó y Ochún: Elementos Espirituales de la Santería (New York, NY: Colección Destino, 1978). Print

  • La Importancia De Los Sueños En La Noche Boca Arriba Y El Etnógrafo

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    "La importancia de los sueños en 'La noche boca arriba' y 'El etnógrafo'" Los sueños han sido considerados un elemento místico a través de diversas culturas y épocas, una forma de llave astral con la capacidad de guiarnos ya sea a dimensiones paralelas, a un viaje introspectivo a lo más profundo de nuestro ser e incluso a predecir el futuro. La utilización e interpretación de los sueños ha cautivado al ser humano y tanto Borges como Cortázar no son la excepción; en sus obras "El etnógrafo" y "La

  • The Heroic Adventure in The Garden of Forking Paths, by Jorge Luis Borges

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    works shows a reflection of hallucinatory in all literature. His works have contributed to philosophical literature and to both fantasy and magical realism. During his lifetime he wrote so many books amongst which are Ficciones, Aleph and of course this particular piece, “The Garden of Forking Paths.” It is a story about controlling, unleashing and gathering survival techniques by getting and practicalizing ideas in the real world and imagination

  • The Theory, History, and Development of Magical Realism

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    Magical realism is more a literary mode than a distinguishable genre and it aims to seize the paradox of the union of opposites such as time and timelessness, life and death, dream and reality and the pre-colonial past and the post-industrial present. It is characterized by two conflicting perspectives. While accepting the rational view of reality, it also considers the supernatural as a part of reality. The setting in a magical realist text is a normal world with authentic human characters. It is

  • Mimesis, Imitacion - Representacion

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    MÍMESIS Imitación, Representación Originalmente, la literatura surgió como una necesidad de, aparte de entretener, formar y enseñar a los hombres con el objeto de lograr un mundo ideal según como lo consideraban los autores; Para este fin se nutría de algunas formas literarias, como lo son: la tragedia, la epopeya, la poesía, etc. Y éstas, a su vez, conseguían su objetivo apoyándose en la imitación de la realidad, a través de la representación literaria o, lo que es lo mismo, mimesis. Ésta