Funes did not understand me, or did not wish to understand me 1. He had effortlessly learned english, french, portuguese, latin. Without effort, he had learned english, french, portu guese, latin. Complete summary of jorge luis borges funes, the memorious. The first english translation appeared in 1954 in avon modern writing no. I sus pect, nevertheless, that he was not very good at thinking. Comprehensive guide to short stories, critical edition. The title has also been translated as funes, his memory. Ficciones part 2 funes the memorious summary course hero. Pedro leandro ipuche has written that funes was a precursor of the race of supermena maverick and vernacular i will not argue the point, but one must not forget that he was also a street. The reader would do well to remember that the spanish for rhapsody is rapsodia and thus suggests rhapsode, a singer of the homeric poems, poems written by a blind storyteller like borges, and poems that required prodigious memories to recite.
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