Short Antholigies

An Anthology of Short Stories by Jorge Borges In the following three short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, we see how the idea of real the and illusion influence one another as described by the author and in his work. In the first short story, Everything and Nothing, Borges explains how people hide behind the illusion of being an actor in order to be some one other than themselves. In this short story, From Something …

…even a rapist.We see from the short story Everything and Nothing, that people sometimes become actors to fill the emptiness of being a no one. The person, for a short while, is able to be someone in the eyes of other people. However, that is the illusion! The audience knows that when the performance is over the actor is himself again, and whether that be a someone or a no one, is the reality!