 | David Hayman - 1987 - 248 oldal
...opening sentence of his "The Library of Babel," Borges's persona declares with wit and precision that the "universe (which others call the Library) is composed...with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings."5 This narrative, laced with circumstantial details drawn from Western history and civilization... | |
 | Mark C. Taylor - 1987 - 233 oldal
...even a circumscribed library, bound and ordered by "the catalogue of catalogues," Borges's "universe" is "composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite...shafts between, surrounded by very low railings." Instead of a coherent and integrated system governed by a preestablished harmony, the library of Babel... | |
 | Peter Lunenfeld - 2000 - 324 oldal
...power of storytelling, and thus of authorship, in the new medium." Memory and the Limits of the Library The universe (which others call the Library) is composed...air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings. - JORGE Luis BORGES, "THE LIBRARY OF BABEL"12 Babel's library is a metaphor for the limits, or infinities,... | |
 | Joseph Hillis Miller, Manuel Asensi - 1999 - 560 oldal
...a moment, the ends—are lost in what Borges calls a "universe (which others call the Library) ... composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number...air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings" (Borges, 1964: 51). What will critical discourse be able to do before that vast extension and that... | |
 | Adele J. Haft, Jane G. White, Robert J. White - 1999 - 204 oldal
...meaningless world. Not only is there a physical resemblance between Eco's library and Borges', which is "composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries," "has a mirror in the hallway that duplicates all appearances," and represents the universe, but the... | |
 | Gabrielle Warnock, Jeff W. O'Connell - 2000 - 292 oldal
...for a while, we are. Finían O'Toole IN SEARCH OF A BOOK he universe (which others call the Bookshop) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite...hexagons one can see, interminably, the upper and lower ßoors. The distiibution of the galleries is invariable. Twenty shelves, five long shelves per side,... | |
 | Paul Standish, Nigel Blake - 2000 - 508 oldal
...shaped by interests independent of, if not opposed to, the inquiry of the user. THE WEB AS LIBRARY5 The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps an infinite, number of hexagonal galleries, with enormous ventilation shafts in the middle,... | |
 | Alberto Manguel, Gianni Guadalupi - 2000 - 780 oldal
...biblical Babel, Genesis 11:1-9) famous for its library. This library — which some call the Universe — is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, separated by vast air shafts and surrounded by very low railings. From any of the hexagons one can... | |
 | René de Costa - 2000 - 164 oldal
...hyperbolically says, his "universe" (italics in original; henceforth, except where noted, all italics are mine): The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps an infinite, number of hexagonal galleries, with enormous ventilation shafts in the middle,... | |
 | Jorge J. E. Gracia (ed), Carolyn Korsmeyer, Rodolphe Gasché - 2002 - 260 oldal
...are foils to their counterparts as they could derive from the encyclopedias of Western philosophy. The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, in the center of each gallery is a ventilation shaft,... | |
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The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite an3 perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings. 
