Footnote:

Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1994), p. 116. In this book (and in most other ones as well), Eco openly acknowledges the strong presence of Borges’ ideas in his formulations. This is the case in particular for this passage, that seems to have been taken directly, for instance, from Borges’ “The God’s Script”. See also, Leo Corry, “Jorge Borges: Author of 'The Name of the Rose’,” in Umberto Eco, Nicholas Gane and Mike Gane (eds.), (London, Sage, 2005), Vol. 2: 389-406.

 

Calculating the Limits of Poetic License:
Fictional Narrative and the History of Mathematics
Leo Corry - Tel Aviv University