Bibliography
Jorge Luis Borges, The Total Library. London: Allen Lane 2000.
ISBN: 0713992719, 9780713992717. Dewey Decimal: 864.6.
Citations
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Certain examples that Aristotle attributes to Democritus and Leucippus clearly prefigure it, but its belated inventor is Gustav Theodor Fechner, and its first exponent, Kurd Lasswitz. [...] Its correspondences are well-known...
“The Total Library” in Borges: The Total Library p. 214 -
Everything would be in its blind volumes. Everything: the detailed history of the future, Aeschylus’ The Egyptians, the exact number of times that the waters of the Ganges have reflected the flight of a falcon, the secret and...
“The Total Library” in Borges: The Total Library p. 216 -
These ambiguities, redundancies and deficiencies remind us of those which doctor Franz Kuhn attributes to a certain Chinese encyclopedia entitled The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. In its distant pages it is...
Borges: The Total Library p. 231