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- Shakespeare's Memory (original Spanish title: La memoria de Shakespeare) is a short story collection published in 1983 that collects the last stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, which had been published in diverse mediums, such as the national newspapers La Nación and Clarín. It was published three years before the author's death.
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Apr 5, 1998 · Shakespeare’s memory, from his youngest boyhood days to early April, 1616—I offer it to you.” I could not get a single word out. It was as though I had been offered the ocean.
The story follows a Shakespeare scholar who acquires Shakespeare's memory, realizes that his previous analysis of Shakespeare's work was lacking, and meditates on the nature of memory and its connection to creativity.
- Jorge Luis Borges
- La memoria de Shakespeare
- 1983
- Argentina
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Shakespeare's Memory (original Spanish title: La memoria de Shakespeare) is a short story collection published in 1983 that collects the last stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, which had been published in diverse mediums, such as the national newspapers La Nación and Clarín.
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Argentina
- 1983
- Spanish
Now Borges’s remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of his life. Brilliantly translated, these stories combine a direct and at times almost colloquial style coupled with Borges’s signature fantastic inventiveness.
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Mar 2, 2016 · When a Shakespeare scholar obtains the memories, he is finally able to understand his subject perfectly. But what at first seems a boon, soon becomes a curse. Access the full text
In Shakespeare, Borges found a precursor of his own philosophical preoccupations with the negation of personal identity and with the transmission of a cultural legacy. ’Everything and Nothing’ (1960) and the later ’A Page on Shakespeare’ (1964) explore the first of these concerns.
