Example sentences for: borges

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

  • But if he's too human to be another Borges, he's too intellectual and urbane to be another García Márquez.

  • 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.

  • With its echoes of Jorge Luis Borges, Stanley Kubrick, even Frank Henenlotter's great splatter flick Brain Damage (1988), the whole movie is so hyperalert that it seems pitched on the verge of a stroke.

  • Stoppard belongs to an international literary tradition--call it brain-teaser modernism--whose theatrical godfather is Luigi Pirandello, and which includes writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Queneau, and Italo Calvino.

  • —Jorge Luis Borges, “Funes the Memorius”


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