Short Antholigies

In the following three short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, we see how the idea of real the and illusion influence one another as described by the author and in his work. In the first short story, Everything and Nothing, Borges explains how people hide behind the illusion of being an actor in order to be some one other than themselves. In this short story, From Something to No One, he demonstrates the idea that G-d is " nothing " in illusionary thought, but is " everything " in reality. Limits, the third story, reverses the illusion of death's limits to a more legitimate reality.

Everything to Nothing, describes a man who petends to be someone, so it shouldn't be discovered that he was no one. He entered the profession of being an actor, someone who, on a stage, plays at being someone else in front of poeple who think he is really that person. He recieved great satisfaction from his work until the last lines were read and the last scene was completed and then he tatsted the "hateful taste of unreality." He would leave the stage where he is the image of a hereo in a tragic tale and once again become no one. Anthony Kerrigan who translates the short stories, states that this one

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