The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.


"Note on Walt Whitman" ["Nota sobre Walt Whitman"] - Discussion (1932)

Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic...

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic...

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic...

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic...