Borges

Jorge Luis Borges · Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986) · 1899–1986

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Borges mainly for the motif of the library and the labyrinth. In 2016, in the "Que faire?" sessions, he speaks of the Borgesian world of labyrinthine libraries1 2, and he returns to this theme elsewhere, saying that Borges "prowls around the labyrinth"3. He uses this motif to read Nerval: the labyrinthine libraries of Angélique remind him of The Library of Babel4, and he finds in them something "pre-Borgesian"5. He also quotes a line from Borges: "I am so old that I have forgotten the date of my death"6. In 2020, in a "Musicosophie" session, he draws on "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote": rewriting the Quixote word for word would give a completely different reading of it. From this he draws an idea about neoclassicism, which never repeats the same7.

Summary produced automatically from 7 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Who is this?

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges ( BOR-hess; Spanish: ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. […]

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Series · 3 Dec 2020Musicosophy 2. From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval on music

7:22Pierre Menard, Author of the QuixoteRewriting Don Quixote word for word would give a completely different reading: neoclassicism never repeats the same thing.