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Through comparisons with “Everything and Nothing” and discussion of authors such as Plato, Solomon, Bacon, Shakespeare, and Homer, the analysis explains how plural voices produce a single intellectual statement. The text argues that the story becomes an intricate unfolding of mystery rather than a simple resolution, ending on the idea that only words remain.","C  \nCoNALD J,CH2is7.“he    uordal  \nJORGE LUIS BORGES  \nEdited and with an introduction byHarold Bloom  \nSterling Professor of the HumanitiesYale University  \nBIBLIOTHEQUES  \nLIBRARIES  \nOtta  \nCHELSEA HOUSE PUBLISHERS◇1986New York◇New Haven◇PhiladelphiaPQ7797 BE3Z739 1986  \n是  \nC  \njg  \nRONALD J.CHRIS T  \n# “The Immortal”\n\nThe universal literary figure,the relationship to De Quincey,and the symbolof the labyrinth all come together in Borges'story \"The Immortal\"which isthe perfection of his allusive method in a work that is more than ever a literatureof literature.Beyond that,\"The Immortal\"is Borges'statement of themes whichhave preoccupied so many twentieth-century writers in a form which iscomparable to that of Conrad,that of Joyce,that of Eliot,but is still personal,authentic.\"The Immortal\"is the culmination of Borges'art.  \nTHE UNIVERSAL LITERARY FIGURE  \nThe epigraph to “The Immortal”establishes the familiar theme in Borges'work and introduces the singleness of authorial mind which is the story's subject:  \nSalomon saith.There is no new tbing upon the eartb.So that as Platohad an imagination,tbat all knowledge was but remembrance;soSalomon giveth his sentence,that all novelty is but oblivion.  \nFrancis Bacon:Essays LVI  \nFour authors-Plato,Solomon,Bacon,and Borges himself-are here madeto collaborate in expressing the Erernal Return in an intellectual or mentalsense.This apparent plurality of minds and demonstrable unity of statementin an allusive tissue is at once the theme and the technique of the story,whichuses the literary figure to reformulate definitively the principles of personality  \n肃  \n50RoNALD J.CHRIST  \nand time found throughout Borges.It is the same theme he treats in“Everythingand Nothing,\"but that is a commentary and a summary;\"The Immortal\"isa presentation and a demonstration.  \nIn \"Everything and Nothing\"Borges writes of Shakespeare:\"No one wasso many men as that man,who,like the Egyptian Proteus,could exhaust allthe appearances of being.\"The pun on“no one\"divulges the removed,all-knowing approach Borges is taking in order to distill the essence of his subject.The distillation,however,is a little lifeless,droning;and the monotone is relievedonly by the octave shift in the last sentences when God speaks.\"Everythingand Nothing,like so much in El bacedor [Dreamtigers],is a summation of pre-vious work,but sapped of almost all energy,subdued by nostalgia.More varied,more complex is \"The Immortal,\"which treats the same subject but from theinside so that the reader's understanding develops gradually and dramatically,along with that of the character.Furthermore,at the end of \"Everything andNothing,\"all is solved,resolved,while at the conclusion of \"The Immortal\"the sense of mystery,and complex mystery at that,still lingers.The one isa rapid disclosure,the other an intricate unfolding;and the intricacy comesnot from the treatment alone but from the conception,because in “TheImmortal\"Borges takes the possibilities of both everytbing and notbing moreseriously.The story shows that Homer's work is nothing-nothing extra-ordinary,that is-and that Homer is literally everything,everyone in the story.The paradoxical everything and nothingness of Homer is indicated elsewhereby the expressly generic title of\"El hacedor,\"\"The Maker,\"which Borges bestowsupon him;but in “The Immortal”the two exhaustive attributes are simultaneousmodes of his work and personality.The story itself is a little Odyssey,andthat,of course,is tribute to the universal,mythic proportions of Homer's workwhich nourishes subsequent writings,but the story in no way proposes thegrcatness or superiority of the Homeric epic,instead showing its mereinevitability in the scheme of things:  \nHomer composed the Odyssey;given an infinite period of time,withinfinite circumstances and changes,the impossible thing is not tocompose the Odyssey,at least once.No one is anyone;a singleimmortal is all men.  \nThe Odysey belongs not to Homer but to History;it is nothing more","cbCaiqwNJ51ZblzS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqwNJ51ZblzS","pdf",5351942,4,1,26,"English","en",105,"# The Immortal\n## The Universal Literary Figure\n## Authorship, Personality, and Time\n## Comparison with “Everything and Nothing”\n## Homer, Language, and the Odyssey\n## The Conclusion: Only Words Remain","[{\"question\":\"What theme is central to Borges’s “The Immortal” according to the text?\",\"answer\":\"The Eternal Return is presented as a unifying intellectual theme, expressed through multiple authors collaborating in a single allusive tissue.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the story relate to Borges’s “Everything and Nothing”?\",\"answer\":\"“Everything and Nothing” is described as a summation with energy subdued by nostalgia and a rapid disclosure at the end, 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