# Borges and the Eternal Orang-Utans

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- Authors: [Luis Fernando Veríssimo](https://www.bookquiver.com/luis-fernando-verissimo)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4813-880-7
- Published: 2012-05-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.