Borges and the Eternal Orang-Utans

Download or read book Borges and the Eternal Orang-Utans written by Luis Fernando Verissimo and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol, Jorge Luis Borges, and for reasons that a mere passion for literature cannot explain, he finds himself at the centre of a murder investigation that involves arcane demons, the mysteries of the Kabbala, the possible destruction of the world, and the Elizabethan magus John Dee's 'Eternal Orang-utan', which would end up by writing all the known books in the cosmos.