Jorge Luis Borges

Eine repräsentative Auswahl kürzerer und sprachlich nicht zu schwieriger Erzählungen aus dem Gesamtwerk des grossen Argentiniers: La intrusa, Las ruinas circulares, La biblioteca de Babel, El sur, El milagro secreto, El libro de arena, El otro, La casa de Asterión, Deutsches Requiem, Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos, Hombre de la esquina rosada, La trama, Diálogo sobre un diálogo, El cautivo. Als Auftakt enthält die Anthologie Borges Hommage an die deutsche Sprache: Al idioma alemán.

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La biblioteca de Babel

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“Man, the imperfect librarian, may be the product of chance or of malevolent demiurgi; the universe, with its elegant endowment of shelves, of enigmatical volumes, of inexhaustible stairways for the traveler and latrines for the seated librarian, can only be the work of a god.”

“The methodical task of writing distracts me from the present state of man. The certitude that everything has been written negates us, it turns us into phantoms. I know of districts in which the young men prostrate themselves before books and kiss their pages in a barbarous manner, but they do not know how to decipher a single letter.”

Eden

There is no syllable one can speak that is not filled with tenderness and terror 

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