The author of this story called it a "long metaphor for insomnia." It narrator realizes he needs toretrieve some borrowed books when he receives an urgent telegram about his father's health. Thetitle character learns Latin by reading Pliny's Natural History, and is unimpressed with the feats ofCyrus the Great, Mithridates, and Simonides. The title character of this work is first introducedwhen the narrator's cousin Bernardo Haedo asks him what time it is. This story's protagonist iscrippled when he (*) falls from a horse and is confined to a darkened room until his death at the age oftwenty-one. That protagonist tells the narrator of his system of enumeration and of his habit ofreconstructin
The author of this story called it a "long metaphor for insomnia." It narrator realizes he needs toretrieve some borrowed books when he receives an urgent telegram about his father's health. Thetitle character learns Latin by reading Pliny's Natural History, and is unimpressed with the feats ofCyrus the Great, Mithridates, and Simonides. The title character of this work is first introducedwhen the narrator's cousin Bernardo Haedo asks him what time it is. This story's protagonist iscrippled when he (*) falls from a horse and is confined to a darkened room until his death at the age oftwenty-one. That protagonist tells the narrator of his system of enumeration and of his habit ofreconstructing whole days in his mind. For 10 points, name this Borges story about an Argentinean boywith a prodigious memory.
The author of this story called it a "long metaphor for insomnia.
"Funes the Memorious" [or "Funes el memorioso"; or "Funes, His Memory"]