The first english translation appeared in 1954 in avon modern writing no. Cristina molina rated it really liked it apr 25, this is my general grudge against short stories. I was afraid i was hopeful that the elemental rain would take us by surprise in the open. Funes was, let us not forget, almost incapable of general, platonic ideas. There are, of course, in spite of borges y yo, far more than two such homonyms. I remember him i have no right to utter this sacred verb, only one man on earth had that right and he is dead with a dark pas. My high school senior year english teacher was kind of an odd fellow, though i now believe he relished and even cultivated the wacky.
The consequences for funes of his precise memory are interesting, particularly when one considers that experiment of nature that a. Borges returns to buenos airesthen in comes back to fray bentos, intending to relax and study some latin. A little book about a vast memory see this database. It fuhes urged on by southern wind, the trees were already going wild. Memoriodo could compare the setting of the clouds that he saw one day, with the veins on the cover of a book. Ireneo funes, the protagonist, after an accident, was bestowed with the absolute memory and the keenest perception. Borges shows how it would be to live remembering every details in your life without living anymore. Each word had memogioso particular sign, a kind of mark. Gina voicu marked it as toread aug 11, roxana litean marked it as toread nov 19, cristian bistriceanu rated it it was amazing may 29, dan rated it it was amazing mar 24, published by polirom first published dana tudor marked it as toread jan 20, roxana marked it as to. Segun borges, esta pieza literaria es una larga metafora del insomnio. The unnamed narrator recallshe hesitates to use this ghostly verb 107 in the presence of funess memory, in every sense of the wordthe dialogue he had with funes, a young man from fray bentos in present day uruguay, a half century ago, 111 as an invited written dithyramb in his memory. Aug 12, 2019 he learns that ireneo funes has meanwhile suffered a horseback riding accident and is now hopelessly crippled. He learns that ireneo funes has meanwhile suffered a horseback riding accident and is now hopelessly crippled. Borges shows how it would be to live remembering every details in.
Complete summary of jorge luis borges funes, the memorious. Borges, jorge luis the narrators initial encounter with funes, a tough living and working on a. 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. Highbrow, dandy, city slickerfunes did not utter those insulting words, but i know with reasonable certainty that to him i represented those mis fortunes. The title has also been translated as funes, his memory. Luria encountered and described in his book, the mind of a mnemonist.