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Solomon shereshevskiia stage memoryartist mnemonist with a condition known as hypermnesia, 5 is described by the russian neuropsychologist alexander luria in his book, the mind of a mnemonist6 which some speculate was the inspiration for borges s story. In mathematical terms, funes had treated each number as a prime, a unique integer without relation memoriosso other unique integers. The actual story of funes the memorious concerns borges fleeting acquaintance with. Borges himself states the tale is a metaphor for this in the prologue to artifices. English translations of jorge luis borges funes the. My high school senior year english teacher was kind of an odd fellow, though i now believe he relished and even cultivated the wacky. Funes the memorious and other cases of extraordinary. Please analyze funes, the memorious by jorge luis borges.

There are, of course, in spite of borges y yo, far more than two such homonyms. Ireneo lived with his mother, at the edge of the country house of the laurels. Funes asks the narrator borges for any latin text, and borges obliges with volume vii of plinys encyclopedia and quicherats thesaurus, just so. The situation of jorge luis borges is, however, quite different. This section needs additional citations for verification. English translations of funes the memorious by borges. Borges, it is known, was fascinated by encyclopedias and by the naturalis historia perhaps the first encyclopedia in history, which in fact he mentions in funes the memorious. Highbrow, dandy, city slickerfunes did not utter those insulting words, but i know with reasonable certainty that to him i represented those mis fortunes. Ipuche has written that funes was a precursor of the super. Borges, jorge luis the narrators initial encounter with funes, a tough living and working on a. He told me the fellow in the alleyway was one ireneo funes. 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.