Jorge Luis Borges

Along with Charles Dickens and Franz Kafka, the Argentine short-story writer Jorge Luis Borges is one of the few authors to inspire his own adjective. A “Borgesian” work is one that bends time and reality, often creating a fantasy world revealing unexpected historical connections. In The Library of Babel, Borges describes an infinite library that contains all possible texts. In The Babylon Lottery, he chronicles a lottery in which there are as many negative outcomes as positive; hence a winning ticket might carry a monetary prize while a losing ticket requires the loser’s finger to be cut off. In orges and I, he ponders his own identity, wondering whether his true nature is that of the famous writer or that of the humble man who walks the streets of Buenos Aires.

The word infinite in the passage is closest in meaning to
A wonderful
B distant
C realistic
D immense












The word infi nite is used to emphasize that something is extremely great in amount or degree. So “an infinite library” means an immense library. The correct answer is (D).