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La biblioteca de babel

by Jorge Luis Borges, Nestor Ibarra, Raymond Gid · first published 1963

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  • IvyMike · Oct 7, 2014 · Recommends

    You may be interested in Borges's short story The Library of Babel. http://hyperdiscordia.crywalt.com/library_of_babel.html ""The Library of Babel" (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format." (from…

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  • derleth · Dec 15, 2012 · Mentions

    "The Library of Babel", by Borges > "The Library of Babel" (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

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