Borges, Jorge Luis:
"Baruch Spinoza"

In: Selected Poems / edited by Alexander Coleman; translation by Willis Barnstone. - New York : Viking, 1999: 383.

Other editions / translations: Vorher/previous: Borges : a Reader : A Selection from the Writings of Jorge Luis Borges / ed. by Emír Rodriguez Monegal and Alastair Reid. - New York : Dutton, 1981
Erneut/again: (Ausgabe/edition Coleman:) New York : Penguin Books, 2000

Literature type: Lyrics, Prose, Films, Arts
Language: English
Thematic areas: Literary or artistic representation

English commentary: The Jew's hands, translucent in the dusk,
polish the lenses time and again.
The dying arfernoon is fear, is cold, and all afternoons are the same.
The hands and the hyacint-blue air
that whtens at the Ghetto edges
do not quite exist for this silent
man who conjures up a clear
labyrinth---
undisturbed by fame, that reflection
of dreams in the dream of another
mirror, nor by maidens' timid love.
Free of metaphor and myth, he grinds
a stubborn crystal: the infinite
map of the One who is all His stars
(transl. by Richard Howard, César Rennert)URL: http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/spinoza7-borges6.htm // www.autodidactproject.org/other/spinoza2.html

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