La Religieuse by Denis Diderot
Written around 1780, and based on the story of a French nun, who in 1758 launched a legal lawsuit to be exempted from her vows, La Religieuse (also called The Nun or Memoirs of a…
Jorge Luis Borges and his infinite worlds
Each culture, like each man, creates its paradises. The Egyptians who built the pyramids aspired to a modest little house surrounded by fertile land. Dante composed for himself a triumphal reception at…