Borges on Time and Memory

1. Postmodernism as Historical Dilemma

1. "History is the nightmare …"
2. Forgetting and Remembering: Overdetermination
3. The Traces of History

2. Too Much Memory: "Funes, the Memorious"

1. A True Story? The Idiot Savant
2. Infinite Memory and Regression: Zeno’s Paradoxes
3. Memory and Inaction

3. Deadly Solutions: "Death and the Compass"

1. Occam’s Razor: "Plurality should not be posited without necessity."
2. Elegant Solutions
3. The Kabbalah and Hermeneutics
4. The Final Shot

4. The Moment of Transcendence: "The Secret Miracle"

1. The Letter and the Firing Squad
2. The Paradoxical Play: The Enemies
3. A Year in a Moment

5. Honor and Myth: "The South"

1. The Sanitarium and the Open Range
2. Gaucho Honor
3. Another Transcendent Moment

6. Elizabeth Bishop: For tomorrow: "The Map" 3, "Wading at Wellfleet" 7, "The Man-Moth" 14," "Love Lies Sleeping" 16, "The Monument" 23, "The Prodigal" 71. For Wednesday: "Arrival at Santos" 89, "Brazil, January 1, 1502" 91, "Questions of Travel" 93, "The Burglar of Babylon" 112, "Some Dreams They Forgot" 146, "One Art" 178.