In Jorge Luis Borges' "The Library of Babel," which of the following is NOT a major concern of the work ?
Correct answer: C. Borges takes great pains to show how the key to understanding the library is reason.
- A. The short work speaks of the daunting search for truth and knowledge.
- B. It is obsessed with the descriptions of an endless and ultimately incomprehensible library.
- C. Borges takes great pains to show how the key to understanding the library is reason.
- D. The library is analogous to the universe.
Explanation
The library represents the universe and the characters’ frustrating search for truth, while its infinite books remain fundamentally incomprehensible. The work does not present ordinary human reason as the key to mastering or understanding the library.
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