Blue Tigers - Themes

Themes

The story reiterates themes found elsewhere in Borges's writings. In particular, "The Zahir", "The Book of Sand", and "The Library of Babel" similarly deal with revulsion in the face of contemplating the infinite.

Jorge Luis Borges
Bibliography
Original
collections
A Universal History of Infamy
"On Exactitude in Science"
Ficciones
"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
"The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim"
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"
"The Circular Ruins"
"The Lottery in Babylon"
"An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain"
"The Library of Babel"
"The Garden of Forking Paths"
"Funes the Memorious"
"The Form of the Sword"
"Theme of the Traitor and the Hero"
"Death and the Compass"
"The Secret Miracle"
"Three Versions of Judas"
"The End"
"The Sect of the Phoenix"
"The South"
The Aleph
"The Immortal"
"The Dead Man"
"The Theologians"
"Emma Zunz"
"The House of Asterion"
"Deutsches Requiem"
"Averroes's Search"
"The Zahir"
"The Writing of the God"
"The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths"
"The Wait"
"The Aleph"
Dreamtigers
"Borges and I"
Dr. Brodie's Report
"The Encounter"
"The Gospel According to Mark"
The Book of Sand
"The Other"
"Ulrikke"
"The Congress"
"There Are More Things"
"The Disk"
"The Book of Sand"
Shakespeare's Memory
"Blue Tigers"
"Shakespeare's Memory"
Other works
  • A New Refutation of Time
  • Borges on Martín Fierro
  • "El Golem"
  • Book of Imaginary Beings
  • Labyrinths
Fictional works,
characters etc.
  • Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge's Taxonomy
  • The Conversation with the Man Called Al-Mu'tasim
  • H. Bustos Domecq
  • Pedro Mata
  • Uqbar

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