A library that contains all books ever written or ever to be written, all but lost within a nearly infinite number of works of meaningless gibberish. This was the concept that philosopher Jorge Luis ...

n 1939, employed in a small municipal library of Buenos Aires where the oafishness of his colleagues made him weep with daily frustration, the 40-year-old (and still largely unknown) Jorge Luis Borges ...

Almost three quarters of a century after it was published, Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel” continues to resonate. A year and a half ago, the online magazine Places Journal published a set of ...

Programmer Jamie Zawinski has created a digital rendering of the infinite, hexagonal library that is the subject and setting of Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Library of Babel." The universe ...

If there is a heaven for Jorge Luis Borges, it ought to take the form of a library. A universal library, perhaps, of the sort he imagined in one of his wonderful stories. By no means should it be ...

The world has been transformed by the internet. Google, founded just 20 years ago, is a major force in online information. The company name is a misspelt version of "googol", the number one followed ...

Most people first encounter Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges piecemeal. This isn't much of a surprise, considering how good he was at writing plummy, ultracondensed short stories, many of which – ...

In Jorge Luis Borges’ classic tale The Library of Babel, the librarians are driven mad searching through an infinite number of books, most of them meaningless, hunting for answers to the fundamental ...

“I don’t know how to celebrate this stream of Jewish blood that runs through my veins,” Borges once wrote to a Jewish friend. BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Jorge Luis Borges, one of South America’s canonized ...

From Conversations, a collection of dialogues conducted in 1984 and 1985 between Jorge Luis Borges and the Argentine poet Osvaldo Ferrari, out next month from Seagull Books. Translated from the ...