Tag Archives: Jorge Luis Borges

The world will be Tlön

It’s time for my annual Borges quotation.
Now, the conjectural “primitive language” of Tlön has found its ways into the schools . . .  in all memories, a fictitious past occupies the place of any other. We know nothing about it without any certainty, not even that it is false . . . A scattered dynasty [...]

Tlön, Uqbar, Thomas Browne, Rings of Saturn

This past weekend, Globe Books did us all a favour by featuring Jorge Luis Borges‘ Ficciones in its 50 Greatest Books of all time series. The review/essay, written by the U of T’s Dennis Duffy, gives the briefest accounts on the nature of the text and its effects on western contemporary literature. Duffy [...]