Word: borgesian
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...named Julián Carax. But who was Carax? No one can agree. And why have all other copies of his books been destroyed? And who is that guy following the boy around, speaking in riddles and smelling of burned paper? The Shadow of the Wind is a sophisticated, Borgesian thriller about--and for--those select few for whom books and people, reading and living, are one and the same...
...hard-headed pedestrians. And then there are those from even more exotic climes like that of, well, the rest of the urban United States, who discover that on the tortured “grid” of metropolitan Boston, taxicab rides are ever-unfolding, decidedly meta Borgesian enigmas. Cambridge is simply not the place for those who demand speedy or imaginative journeys...
...play may be a surreal charade, a pre-Borgesian construct, but it is beautifully arranged and acted. And in demonstrating how the mind can be fooled, it manages to touch the playgoer's heart. At the end - I've decided you're not going to London just because I recommend it, and if you are you can skip this paragraph - the mystery woman, whose name is either Lina or Julia (or neither), materializes, embracing her mother fervently, kissing her husband passionately. Her gestures take no sides in the dispute; she seems equally indulgent of the contradictory beliefs held by these...
...beards) or some kind of procedural fee (marriage, burial, customs duties and a flat fee for foreigners to participate in the local economy—however problematic, by our standards, this determination of foreignness may have been). The detail which stands out, making the list seem more like a Borgesian encyclopedia than a record of tax law, is that of souls...
...Borgesian game of hunting a lost text may remind readers of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, where monks searched for the second part of Aristotle's Poetics, and it would not be a bad comparison. Like Eco, Pavic loves to play games with the textuality of the text--the Dictionary is more toy than book--and, like Eco, Pavic has profound doubts about the power of language to communicate...