What famous modernist short story compares the universe to an infinite library of hexagonal galleries ?
Correct answer: D. Borges' "The Library of Babel"
- A. Joyce's "The Dead"
- B. Hemingway's "My Old Man"
- C. Woolf's "A Haunted House"
- D. Borges' "The Library of Babel"
Explanation
Borges’s “The Library of Babel” imagines the universe as an endless library made up of hexagonal galleries. The other choices are modernist stories by Joyce, Hemingway, and Woolf, but none uses this library metaphor.
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