Example sentences for: borges

How can you use “borges” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Like Jorge Luis Borges, he flirts with science fiction premises and invents antique literary texts and then analyzes them.

  • Unlike Borges, Saramago is an outspoken political activist of a decidedly left-wing slant.

  • —Jorge Luis Borges, “Funes the Memorius”

  • But whereas Borges at his best elicits from readers a shudder of metaphysical terror, and Calvino stimulates a spasm of epistemological ecstasy, Stoppard consistently induces in his audiences a frisson of self-congratulatory pleasure.

  • This essay is, in a way, about how we avoid becoming Borges's character Funes, who could not understand repeated observations as exemplars of a common rule and thus could not synthesize and categorize.


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