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"Death and the Compass" (original Spanish title: "La muerte y la brújula") is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). Published in Sur in May 1942, it was included in the 1944 collection Ficciones .
- Jorge Luis Borges
- May 1942
- 1942
- Argentina
- Jorge Luis Borges
- COMPASS
- The first letter of the Name has been spoken
- The afternoon dailies did not neglect this series of
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problems which exercised the daring O F THE MAN Y perspicacity of Lonnrot none was so strange-so harshly strange, we may say-as the staggered series of bloody acts which culminated at the countryhouse of Triste-Ie-Roy, amid the boundless odor of the eucalypti. It is true that Erik LOnnrot did not succeed in preventing the last crime, but it is indi...
Lannrot abstained from smiling. Suddenly become a bibli ophile-or Hebraist-he directed that the dead man's books be made into a parcel, and he carried them to his office. Indifferent to the police investigation, he dedicated himself to studying them. A large octavo volume revealed to him the teachings of Israel Baal Shem Tobh, founder of the sect o...
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmq/vol24/iss3/3 6 DEATH AND THE COMPASS 257 ances. The Cross and the Sword contrasted them with the admir able discipline and order of the last Eremitical Congress; Ernst Palast, writing in The Martyr, spoke out against "the intolerable oJ delays in this clandestine and frugal pogrom, which has taken three months ...
- Jorge Luis Borges
- 1942
26 nov 2020 · Death and the Compass is a famous detective short story written by Jorge Luis Borges. The story is about the effort of a detective to find the murderer of three murders happened in the same pattern. But in the end of the story his effort to solve the mystery leads him to his own death.
Death and the Compass è un film del 1996 diretto da Alex Cox, tratto dall'omonimo racconto di Jorge Luis Borges del 1942. Il film è interpretato da Peter Boyle, Miguel Sandoval e Christopher Eccleston. Appare anche l'attrice messicana Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez.
Complete summary of Jorge Luis Borges' Death and the Compass. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Death and the Compass.
“Death and the Compass”. Let us briefly recall the main events in this story. A rabbi is murdered. Inspector Treviranus surmises that the rabbi has been surprised by a burglar and then accidentally been killed. “Possible, but not interesting” is Lönnrots answer. In a typewriter a piece of paper
Death and the Compass. A police detective (Peter Boyle) and a reporter investigate strange patterns that emerge from a rash of serial murders.
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