Funes, El Memorioso
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This story concerns a boy named Ireneo Funes, whose life is wrecked when he loses the ability to forget.
In both scholarly and popular works, Funes is presented as a case study or example whose predicament has more to do with the biological and agential reality of human memory than it does with Borges' vast oeuvre of fables and poems obsessed with remembrance.
The story is often the only evidence offered in support of the claim that a life without forgetting would be intolerable, as if it were indeed authoritative on the matter.
In both scholarly and popular works, Funes is presented as a case study or example whose predicament has more to do with the biological and agential reality of human memory than it does with Borges' vast oeuvre of fables and poems obsessed with remembrance.
The story is often the only evidence offered in support of the claim that a life without forgetting would be intolerable, as if it were indeed authoritative on the matter.
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