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Jorge Luis Borges

1899 – 1986 · Argentina · Literature, Philosophy

Invented the labyrinth-library imagination that prefigured hypertext.

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Continuity of ideas

Who shaped Jorge Luis Borges, and who they shaped

Inherited from3

  • Dante Alighieri

    1265 – 1321 · Literature, Philosophy

    Borges's Nine Dantesque Essays make the Commedia his model of the total book.

  • James Joyce

    1882 – 1941 · Literature

    Borges translated the last page of Ulysses and argued with its totality.

  • Miguel de Cervantes

    1547 – 1616 · Literature

    'Pierre Menard' makes the Quixote the founding problem of authorship.

Passed the work to2

  • Olga Tokarczuk

    1962 · Literature

    The encyclopaedic fragment is a form she takes from Borges.

  • Orhan Pamuk

    1952 · Literature

    The library, the labyrinth and the counterfeit manuscript are Borgesian devices in Pamuk.

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