Example sentences for: borgesian

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

  • His two most Borgesian works are The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984), an hommage to the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, and The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989), in which a proofreader inserts a single word--"not"--into a single sentence in a book he's checking, thereby questioning every celebrated theme of Portuguese history.

  • A quasi-Borgesian conceit, but Saramago uses it to ask how people love when disaster upsets the social norms.


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