The Universe is a Library in this wild ride of a text. And from that one-line summary, we bet you can tell that Borges's story is a deconstructionist's dream come true. Here, again, there really is no outside-text. It's all text. We're all text.
Okay, now it's your turn:
- How does the form of Borges's text (including its use of footnotes) relate to the message that it conveys?
- What's deconstructive about "The Library of Babel" (aside from the whole "no outside-text" idea)?