Ireneo lived with his mother, at the edge of the country house of the laurels. English translations of jorge luis borges funes the. Borges, jorge luis the narrators initial encounter with funes, a tough living and working on a. The actual story of funes the memorious concerns borges fleeting acquaintance with. Funes asks the narrator borges for any latin text, and borges obliges with volume vii of plinys encyclopedia and quicherats thesaurus, just so.
In mathematical terms, funes had treated each number as a prime, a unique integer without relation memoriosso other unique integers. Highbrow, dandy, city slickerfunes did not utter those insulting words, but i know with reasonable certainty that to him i represented those mis fortunes. English translations of funes the memorious by borges. He told me the fellow in the alleyway was one ireneo funes. Ipuche has written that funes was a precursor of the super. There are, of course, in spite of borges y yo, far more than two such homonyms. This section needs additional citations for verification. My high school senior year english teacher was kind of an odd fellow, though i now believe he relished and even cultivated the wacky. Borges himself states the tale is a metaphor for this in the prologue to artifices.
The situation of jorge luis borges is, however, quite different. Please analyze funes, the memorious by jorge luis borges. Borges, it is known, was fascinated by encyclopedias and by the naturalis historia perhaps the first encyclopedia in history, which in fact he mentions in funes the memorious. Solomon shereshevskiia stage memoryartist mnemonist with a condition known as hypermnesia, 5 is described by the russian neuropsychologist alexander luria in his book, the mind of a mnemonist6 which some speculate was the inspiration for borges s story. Pedro leandro ipuche has written that funes was a precursor of the race of supermena maverick and vernacular i will not argue the point, but one must not forget that he was also a street.
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