Discussion of themes and motifs in jorge luis borges funes, the memorious. I shall not debate the point, but one should not forget that he was also a kid from. Highbrow, dandy, city slickerfunes did not utter those insulting words, but i know with reasonable certainty that to him i represented those mis fortunes. Segun borges, esta pieza literaria es una larga metafora del insomnio.
Explicitly, borges refers to his piece only as a long metaphor of. Ireneo lived with his mother, at the edge of the country house of the laurels. Exclude ratings general audiences 1 exclude warnings no archive warnings apply 1. Funes never spoke these injurious words, but i am sufficiently certain i represented for him those misfortunes. 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. Yet in funes, the memorious, perspective of memory is absent. Dedicado a carasinmadre this feature is not available right now. The first english translation appeared in 1954 in avon modern writing no. I remember him i have no right to utter this sacred verb, only one man on earth had that right and he is dead. But on the other hand his knowledge enriches his work to a great extent.