The present study aims to check the gravitation of classic culture in funes the memorioso. He added that ireneo was the son of maria clementina funes, an ironing woman in the town, and that his father, some people said, was an. If they are flawed translations, following a spanish rather than the intended. Pdf the present study aims to check the gravitation of classic culture in funes the memorioso. The consequences for funes of his precise memory are interesting, particularly when one considers that experiment of nature that a. Classic culture is incorporated strategically in the definitive version of the short story.
In order to convey the workings of the memory as he understands it, borges portrays an individual whose memory functions in a precisely inverse fashion. Nenhuma parte desta edicao pode ser utilizada ou reproduzida em qualquer meio ou. Borges was in uraguay to study latin and relax with his cousins. Funes il memorioso sisohpromatem marco vignolo gargini. But on the other hand his knowledge enriches his work to a great extent. In funes, the memorious, the argentinean writer jorge luis borges told us the story of ireneo funes, a young uruguayan who suffered a head injury after being thrown by a horse. I recall him though i have no right to speak that sacred verb only one man on earth did, and that man is dead holding a dark passionflower. Yet in funes, the memorious, perspective of memory is absent. The remark on caldera from on writing is a great find. Funes, his memory is a short story by jorge luis borges.
Funes il memorioso di jorge luis borges, di stefano. Sep 24, 2014 this feature is not available right now. 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 story is told in the perspective of a fictional version of borges as he meets ireneo funes, a nineteenyearold boy who resides in fray bentos, uraguay. 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. Explicitly, borges refers to his piece only as a long metaphor of. As the blog relates, di giovanni was never able to translate borges ficciones which includes funes the memorious because his publisher, e. 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. A little book about a vast memory see this database. I recall him though i have no right to speak that sacred verbonly one man on earth did, and that man is dead holding a dark passionflower. Literature often shows us illuminating examples of how memory works or is believed to work under particular circumstances. Exclude ratings general audiences 1 exclude warnings no archive warnings apply 1.
I remember him i have no right to utter this sacred verb, only one man on earth had that right and he is dead. As i commented in the blog, thanks for such a hugely informative response. May 27, 2011 il racconto fa parte del libro ficciones finzioni, edito nel 1944, della seconda parte, artificios. The title has also been translated as funes, his memory. Pdf riassunti nuova rivista di letteratura italiana. 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. Luria encountered and described in his book, the mind of a mnemonist. Il racconto fa parte del libro ficciones finzioni, edito nel 1944, della seconda parte, artificios. Maria rated it really liked it oct 02, roxana branianu marked it as toread aug 10, alex panait rated it it was amazing nislp 14, natalia adelina rated a book it was amazing. The damage caused to his brain resulted in his perception of his surroundings being greatly. Funes il memorioso di jorge luis borges, di stefano tedeschi diario.
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