La biblioteca de Babel y el babel de las bibliotecas, con un inédito de Alfonso Ciccarelli, el falsario
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Universidad de Salamanca
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ISSN: 2387-0915
Year of publication: 2020
Issue: 6
Pages: 137-153
Type: Article
More publications in: Titivillus = International Journal of Rare Book: Revista Internacional sobre Libro Antiguo
Abstract
Borges’s short story «The Library of Babel» contains a paradox: the disordered order or the ordered disorder of every library. The aim of this article is to discuss the nature of human understanding (whether absolute, relative or realistic) and its relation to possible ways of classification in libraries. classified. The text by Alfonso Ciccarelli (1532-1583) deals with mankind’s dream underlying the Hermetic myth: the acquisition of total, divine and ordered knowledge.