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Book Of Sand Thesis

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The Book of Sand by Jorge Luís Borges suggests the idea that humans have an intense, almost obsessive, desire to understand the unknown. In the Book of Sand the narrator becomes obsessed with interpreting how the book given to her was infinite in its number of pages, “A prisoner of the book, I almost never went out anymore,” (47). The narrator is fixated on discovering how the book itself can be “infinite;” this shows a thirst for knowledge and the need to understand foreign concepts. The narrator studies the book with such intensity that it consumes her, “Summer came and went, and I realized that the book was monstrous,” (47). With the realization that the book had taken over her every thought and motive, the narrator withdraws from her counterproductive

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