I believe that books will never disappear
What was the first literary reading of Borges?
Answer: Grimm's Fairy Tales in an English Version.
2. Why do all children feel guilty when their mothers die?
Answer: All the children take their mothers for granted when they are around
3. What is blindness to Borges?
Answer: It is a way of life.
4. Which library was burning in the dream of Borges?
Answer: The library of Alexandria.
5. What does the book always retain even if it is full of errors?
Answer: It retains something sacred and something mortal something magical.
6. When does the poetic act takes place, according to Borges?
Answer: When the poet writes poetry and a reader reads it.
7. When does the poet fail according to Borges?
Answer: When the reader doesn't feel the poetic event upon reading it, it's a failure on the part of the poet
8. What is Borges' belief about the task of the poet?
Answer: To discover metaphors.
9. Which is the most astounding invention of man according to Borges?
Answer: Invention of books.
10. What is considered as the extension of our voice?
Answer: The telephone
11. What is considered as the extension of our imagination and memory?
Answer: Books
12. Whom does Borges consider as an "intelligent and gracious woman"?
Or
Whom did Borges look upon as an intelligent and a gracious woman?
Answer: His mother – Dona Leonor.
13. When according to Borges, would history and man disappear
Answer: With the disappearance of the books.
Borges says that books will never disappear in spite of modern modes of communication. Explain
Answer: According to Borges, among the many inventions of man, the book is undoubtedly the most astounding of all. All others are extensions of our bodies. The telephone is the extension of our voice, the telescope and the microscope are extensions of our sight and the sword and the plough are extensions of our arms. Only the book is an extension of our imagination and memory. Modern modes in communications have not developed anything to work as a substitute for our imagination and memory
What are the view of Borges on blindness?
Answer: Borges accepted his blindness as a way of life. He was not unhappy, believed that his blindness is a resource and as an artist, he has used it as a raw material to shape his art. In his opinion, we should accept our humiliations, misfortunes and embarrassments and use them as raw materials for our future growth and prosperity. In Borges case, he prefers to believe that these raw materials help an artist to feel more intensely and to transform the miserable circumstances of our life into eternal works of art and thereby overcome them
According to Borges, poetry is an aesthetic art. Explain.
Answer: In the opinion of Borges, a poem is a series of symbols. The poetic act takes place when the poet writes it when the reader reads it, and it always happens in a slightly different manner. Poetry is a magical, mysterious and unexplainable event. If this event is not felt, then, the poet has failed to convey his message. He feels that poetry is something that cannot be defined without oversimplifying it. He gives an example of Emily Dickinson's poem in which the words have a magical and poetic quality. Finding precise words is important in art or Poetry.
What values does Borges see in literature? Why is it important for the future of mankind?
Answer: Literature has its own value in our life because it describes what we are and what we have been and also what we will be. Borges says that our past is nothing that a sequence of dreams. He states that the books are the great memory of all centuries. They are a bridge between past, present and future. They transfer the information from one period to another. Therefore, he feels that if the book disappears, surely our history would disappear and man would disappear. In order to keep ourselves alive in future, we need to protect literature that mirrors our life.
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