13 Borges Books That Popular Music Album Covers Can Perfectly Illustrate

Jorge Luis Borges literature is very well known by it’s deep and rich complexity.

The universe that his philosophical fixations and literary imagination have built for us, his readers, becomes perfectly illustrated in this series of his books by nothing more than popular album covers from a variety of artists from many different music times and genres.

In all of them, the result is richly significant.

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#1 “Mirrors And Copulation Are Abominable, Since They Both Multiply The Numbers Of Men…”

13 Borges Books That Popular Music Album Covers Can Perfectly Illustrate

#2 “Any Destiny, No Matter How Long And Complex It May Be, Consists In Reality Of A Single Moment: The Moment In Which A Man Knows Forever Who He Is ”

13 Borges Books That Popular Music Album Covers Can Perfectly Illustrate

#3 “We Are Ignorant Of The Meaning Of The Dragon In The Same Way That We Are Ignorant Of The Meaning Of The Universe; But There Is Something In The Dragon’s Image That Fits Man’s Imagination, And This Accounts For The Dragon’s Appearance In Different Places And Periods.”

13 Borges Books That Popular Music Album Covers Can Perfectly Illustrate

#4 “You Who Read Me, Are You Sure Of Understanding My Language?”

13 Borges Books That Popular Music Album Covers Can Perfectly Illustrate

#5 “I Live Alone, In A Fourth-Floor Apartment On Calle Belgrano… ‘I Sell Bibles,’ He Told Me… Always In A Low Voice, The Bible Seller Said: ‘The Number Of Pages In This Book Is Exactly Infinite'”

13 Borges Books That Popular Music Album Covers Can Perfectly Illustrate

#6 “I Thought Of A Labyrinth Of Labyrinths, Of One Sinuous Spreading Labyrinth That Would Encompass The Past And The Future And In Some Way Involve The Stars.”

13 Borges Books That Popular Music Album Covers Can Perfectly Illustrate

#7 “You Do Not Need More Than To Be Alive To Die”

13 Borges Books That Popular Music Album Covers Can Perfectly Illustrate

#8 “That Imminence Of A Revelation That Is Not Yet Produced, Is Perhaps The Aesthetic Reality.”

13 Borges Books That Popular Music Album Covers Can Perfectly Illustrate

#9 “They Profess, In Their Own Fashion, The Doctrines Of Heaven And Hell”

13 Borges Books That Popular Music Album Covers Can Perfectly Illustrate

#10 “Until The Hour Of The Yellow Sunset; How Often Have You Watched The Powerful Bengal Tiger Going And Coming On Its Predestined Path Behind The Iron Bars Without Suspecting They Were His Jail. And Now I Only Have Left The Vague Light, The Inextricable Shadow And The Gold Of The Beginning.”

13 Borges Books That Popular Music Album Covers Can Perfectly Illustrate

#11 “When Writers Die They Become Books, Which Is, After All, Not Too Bad An Incarnation.”

13 Borges Books That Popular Music Album Covers Can Perfectly Illustrate

#12 ““I…have Always Known That My Destiny Was, Above All, A Literary Destiny — That Bad Things And Some Good Things Would Happen To Me, But That, In The Long Run, All Of It Would Be Converted Into Words.”

13 Borges Books That Popular Music Album Covers Can Perfectly Illustrate

#13 “So Plant Your Own Gardens And Decorate Your Own Soul, Instead Of Waiting For Someone To Bring You Flowers.”

13 Borges Books That Popular Music Album Covers Can Perfectly Illustrate