ibn hakkan al bokhari dead in his labyrinth

I am in spanish 5 at my high school and i read the work in spanish and still considered it a great story This is one of Borges' most perfect stories, with a masterful command of the language at every moment. In the last paragraphs, Lonrott critizes the labyrinth woven around him as uneconomical, telling his enemy that a labyrinth form of a straight line with points at regulary decreasing distances (as in Zeno's Paradox) is more elegant. Unfortunately, it turns out that the series of murders is all an elaborate plan designed to atract Lonrott to that place by a gangster that wants to take revenge on him for imprisoning his brother, all the clues having been carefully faked. He goes there at the exact date hoping to prevent the crime. The detective Erik Lonrott deduces from several clues that the murders are ritual sacrifaces by a sect that tries to find the Secret Name of God, and that a fourth crime will be comitted in the fourth vertex of a rhombus. So, if 'spoilers' bother you, please be sure to read the story before continuing on:Ī mystery story in which three crimes are comitted in geometrically related places (the vertices of an equilateral triangle) and at periodic intervals of time. The following review from Alejandro Satz explains the mathematical content, but also gives away some of the surprises in the story. This is considered one of Borges' greatest short stories, and was even made into a film by 'RepoMan' director Alex Cox. Note: This work of mathematical fiction is recommended by Alex for literati. (click on names to see more mathematical fiction A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston)ĭeath and the Compass (La Muerte y La Brujula) (1968)

Ibn hakkan al bokhari dead in his labyrinth