Tar for Mortar: The Library of Babel and the Dream of Totality

by Jonathan Basile

TAR FOR MORTAR offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature's greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story "The Library of Babel" is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines, where a library thought to contain all possible permutations of all letters and words and books is plumbed by pious librarians looking for divinely pre-fabricated truths. One must grapple as well with the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1947447505
• ISBN13: 9781947447509
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Punctum Books
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"