The Babel Library Story By The Author Jorge Luis Borges

The Babel Library story by the author Jorge Luis Borges

The present work seeks to explain clearly and concisely how Borges shows his literary work, beyond only words;Given the case that this author is a clear sample of an innovative and fictional narrative, taking his ideas to the highest points of a philosophical reflection. Borges prose is full of deep literary knowledge, uses as recurring themes in his works, time circularity, mirages, libraries and labyrinths;He is one of the most outstanding Latin American writers of the twentieth century and studying all his literary work can become complex and entanglement, so that, we will only concentrate on one of his most famous stories “The Babel Library” where it will be analyzed in a wayexhaustive the infinity of language.

Taking into account the aforementioned, it is where the question arises: how does the “infinite within the language” present in the story “The Babel Library” of the author Jorge Luis Borges? To be able to answer this question on this occasion, the Greek sophist Georgias de Leontinos is present who, through rhetoric, tries to give attributions to man thanks to the language “the word is a great sovereign, who with very small and extremely insignificant bodycarries out divinísima works ". Leontinos Georgias implies that the word can be simple, but by turning it into a text, it can be transformed into something majestic that will influence people’s lives, and this can be seen in Borges’ story, because the narrator explains that, inside this library there are fragments of literature never written, implythat makes no sense.

The same goes for the Internet today, is that Borges could resemble his library to what the computer network is today, where you can find a lot of information that serves as a source of knowledge or run into information that does not haveany sense, which has become frequent and does not benefit readers, who retire unnecessary information. The English poet S. T. Coleridge (1772-1834) tries to explain that words can go beyond the facts that occur in real life “there are cases in which you can learn more, and of more value, of the history of a word, thanof the history of a war ”and it is so that Borges’s work tries to expose a scholarly style that is becoming denser, as an example says“ all men felt lords of an intact and secret treasure ”(P.78) Believe that they own all the knowledge of the world causes, disputes between them for the ambition to have a complete knowledge.

"Those who play rightfully with words, soon make them light" (W. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, III). This is what happens with librarians, they adapted both to the dialectical construction of 25 elements that they completely forgot and really the common prose, “Pinker states that the human brain was modified by natural selection developing computational microcircuits and that of these of theseSyntax, morphology and lexicon of every language come ”(Eidelsztein, p.35). Through the development of the person, it is creating in a concise way its own lexicon and that is how librarians, the dialectic of books within the library begin to be common. Something similar happens when Borges plays with these issues of the formation of the perspective of one, a clear example of this can be seen in one of his iconic stories "the immortal" where he also played with the reality of the main character. What did not exist within the books of the library was a clear and concise language only a confusing and meaning language was without any meaning, perhaps the more confusing the writing of the text is deeper its meaning or the simpler it has less meaning,What Orwell mentions us is that "politically correct language is widely nourished by euphemisms", so it seeks to decorate words in such a way, that the message becomes more peaceful for people.

In Babel’s library, the endless search for that book that told your future, generated that hundreds of people lose their lives, for the simple fact of "the certainty that everything is written annuls or accompanies us" (P.82). But as Orwell presents it is that, “but if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A misuse can be spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should know and work better ”(1946, p.3), no matter how it is written, but as one interprets it inside. 

To conclude this work, it is considered that a lot of importance should be taken to what the narrator mentions already ending the story: “I may fool my old age and fear, but I suspect that the human species -the only one -is about to be extinguished and that theLibrary will last: illuminated, lonely, infinite, perfectly motionless, armed with precious volumes, useless, incorruptible, secret ".(p.82) This is where Heidegger, explains "words are often in the history most powerful than things and facts" of the above it is inferred that it does not matter what happens in the environment, because if this is not embodiedIn a book, it will be very easy for you to miss over time. The story of the story is right in the sense that it does not matter if we die and disappear, all our knowledge will be reflected in a set of books, which with meaning or without it, have a rich and infinite knowledge that each person may or may not take advantage of.