Nian Liu

Book of Sand

The Book of Sand by Borges had to do with the topic obsession with books. Since there is no beginning or end to the book, the reader’s social life goes into ruins and now he dedicates his whole entire time studying this specific book. Since the man couldn’t destroy the book, he hid it somewhere in the far corners of the library. Borges' main message seems to be that too much of anything is never a good thing. In this case, everything in the main character's life ceased to exist with the exception of the monstrous book. The narrator stopped doing things he enjoyed and instead studied and stressed over the book. He feared to even share the book with others. It became an obsession.