Funes did not understand me, or did not wish to understand me 1. 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. Pensar es olvidar diferencias, es generalizar, abstraer. English translations of funes the memorious by borges. The reader would do well to remember that the spanish for rhapsody is rapsodia and thus suggests rhapsode, a singer of the homeric poems, poems written by a blind storyteller like borges, and poems that required prodigious memories to recite. He had effortlessly learned english, french, portuguese, latin. Highbrow, dandy, city slicker funes did not utter those insulting words, but i know with reasonable certainty that to him i represented those mis fortunes. Discussion of themes and motifs in jorge luis borges funes, the memorious. I sus pect, nevertheless, that he was not very good at thinking. The first english translation appeared in 1954 in avon modern writing no. Find a summary of this and each chapter of ficciones.
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