On Literature

is made up of millions of new Chinese encyclopedias of Benevolent Knowledge whose totality is never achieved

one can entertain the idea that there is no universe in the organic, unifying sense that this ambitious word possesses

And it is this hurdle that defeats all Utopians who aspire to a universal language. But let us examine the conclusion Borges drew from this consideration

Joyce played with words, Borges with ideas. And at this point we discern the different ideas the two writers held about what they played with and its infinite capacity for being segmented

I believe that literary experimentalism works on a space we

Borges must be regarded as a conservative, the delirious archivist of a culture whose respectful custodian he claims to be. Delirious, I say, but also a conservative archivist. And yet it is this very oxymoron (“delirious archivist”) which gives us the key to discussing Borges’s experimentalism.

he wished for “an ideal reader affected by an ideal insomnia.”

that the reading of it should be endless and recurrent, so much so that

The idea of the Library of Babel has now linked up with the equally vertiginous idea of the plurality of Possible Worlds

n Swifts project we would be in the library, or rather, part of the library itself, and we would not be able to come out of it, nor could we even speak of it since, just as in the Library of Babel one can only be in one hexagon at a time, in the world we live in we could speak only of what is around us depending on the place we are in, pointing with our finger at what surrounds us.