Historia de la eternidad (in English: A History of Eternity) is a book of essays published by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, in 1936 (editio princeps).
Content
In the essay after which the book is titled, which is complemented by two others (La doctrina de los ciclos, in English: Cycles' doctrine, and El tiempo circular, in English: Circular time), the author contemplates the issues of time and eternity, from platonic, Christian and Nietzschean perspectives. As Borges himself states in the book's prologue, eternity
Essays
- Historia de la eternidad (A history of eternity)
- Las kenningar (The Kenningars)
- La metáfora (Metaphor)
- La doctrina de los ciclos (Cycles' doctrine)
- El tiempo circular (Circular time)
- Los traductores de las mil y una noches (The translators of One Thousand and One Nights):
- El capitán Burton (Captain Burton)
- El doctor Mardrus (Doctor Mardrus)l
- Enno Littmann
- Two Notes:
- El acercamiento a Almotásim (The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim) (short story)
- El arte de injuriar (The art of insulting)