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Borgesian, a.
Brit. |bɔːˈgɛzɪən|, |bɔːˈgiːzɪən|, |bɔːˈxɛzɪən|, U.S. |ˌbɔrˈgɛziən|, |ˌbɔrˈgeɪziən|, |ˌbɔrˈhɛziən|
[‹ the name of Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Argentinian writer of short stories and poetry + -ian suffix.]
Characteristic or reminiscent of the work of Borges, esp. of the intricate, labyrinthine nature of his fictional worlds.
1965Hispania 48 186/2 Dreamtigers is a collection of short pieces representative of various Borgesian moods. 1984C. Owens in B. Wallis Art after Modernism iv. 227 As Jacques Derrida, in his Borgesian critique of this passage indicates: ‘The gallery is the labyrinth which includes in itself its own exit.’ 1991M. Benedikt Cyberspace (1993) i. 2 Billowing, glittering, humming, coursing, a Borgesian library, a city; intimate, immense, firm, liquid, recognizable and unrecognizable at once. 2004Vanity Fair May 143/1 A store, considering the Borgesian nature of my quest, appropriately called Labyrinth. |