Death Worksheet

Title: Death and the Compass                          Author: Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)

Year of Publication: 1942                               Genre/Sub-genre: Short Story/Mystery/Detective 

Language Style: erudite, convoluted, sophisticated, suspence 

Tone: Dark, Suspenseful, thrilling, adventurous, misdirection, misterious.

Place/Setting:

• City:
• Hotel du Nord:
• the paint shop:
• Liverpool House:
• villa Tristle-le-Roy:

The Detective

Art by Almada-Negreiros

Death and the Compass

Art by Matisse

"...he ordered a package made of the dead man's books and he brought them to his apartment. There with complete disregard for the police investigation, he began studying them." (107) - Erika

Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Dark Alley

Labyrinth

Death and The Compass

Labyrinth

"This dim light, the sameness, the mirrors, the many years, my unfamiliarity, the loneliness are what made it large." (112-113) - Erika