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A project towards a universal library. By this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters.
The Library of Babel, a website created by Jonathan Basile, emulates an English-language version of Borges' library. An algorithm he created generates a "book" by iterating every permutation of 29 characters: the 26 English letters, space, comma, and period.
‘The Library of Babel’ is a 1941 short story by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story brings together a number of trademark Borgesian ideas, such as the infinite, and the paradoxical nature of the world.
Feb 12, 2013 · "The Library of Babel" (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899â1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format.
The Library of Babel is a website created by Brooklyn author and coder Jonathan Basile, based on Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Library of Babel" (1941). The site was launched in 2015.
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“The Library of Babel” (from Ficciones, 1941) is one of Borges’s most famous fictions. Its narrative elaborates the concept of an infinite library, and has been interpreted as an allegory of ...
