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{{About|the short story|the short story collection in which it was published |The Book of Sand (
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▲'''"The Book of Sand"''' ({{lang-es|El libro de arena|links=no}}) is a [[1975 in literature|1975]] short story by [[Argentina|Argentine]] writer [[Jorge Luis Borges]]. It has parallels to the same author's 1949 story "[[The Zahir]]" (revised in 1974), continuing the theme of [[self-reference]] and attempting to abandon the terribly infinite.
==Release==
The story was first published in 1975, in Spanish, as the last of 13 stories in a [[The Book of Sand (
==Plot summary==
An unnamed narrator is visited by a tall [[Scotland|Scots]] Bible-seller, who presents him with a very old cloth-bound book that he bought in [[India]] from an [[Dalit|Untouchable]]. The book is emblazoned with the title "Holy Writ," below which title is emblazoned "Bombay,"<ref name=":0" /> but is said to be called "The Book of Sand"..."because neither the book nor the sand has any beginning or end." Upon opening it, he is startled to discover that the book, which is written in an unknown language and occasionally punctuated by illustrations, is, in fact, infinite: as one turns the pages, more pages seem to grow out of the front and back covers. He trades a month of his pension and a prized [[Wycliffe's Bible|"Wiclif Bible"]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title = The Book of Sand|url = http://bookofsand.net/hypertext/|website = bookofsand.net|
==Adaptations==
The story (retitled ''The Sandbook'') was turned into an [[experimental dance]] piece by
The story was adapted by the [[Saudi people|Saudi]] filmmaker Bader Al-Homoud in his online film<ref>{{
The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] composer [[Michel van der Aa]] created for the 2015 [[Holland Festival]] a digital interactive [[song cycle]] based on this story, with [[Kate Miller-Heidke]] as performer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/program/2015/the-book-of-sand/|title=Holland Festival|author=
▲The story was adapted by the [[Saudi]] filmmaker Bader Al-Homoud in his online film<ref>{{cite av media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGD9jJ1QeGY|title=فيلم كتاب الرمال Book of sand short film - YouTube|date=28 November 2013|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref> and was selected as an Official Honoree in the 18th Annual [[Webby Award]]s in 2014.<ref>http://pv.webbyawards.com/2014/online-film-video/general-film-categories/drama-individual-short-or-episode/honorees</ref>
The [[Oakland Theater Project]] staged an adaptation of the story in 2022, written by playwright Lisa Ramirez.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/book|title=Book of Sand (a fairytale) by Lisa Ramirez|website=Oakland Theater Project|access-date=24 March 2023}}</ref>
▲The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] composer [[Michel van der Aa]] created for the 2015 [[Holland Festival]] a digital interactive [[song cycle]] based on this story, with [[Kate Miller-Heidke]] as performer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/program/2015/the-book-of-sand/|title=Holland Festival|author=INTERNATIONAAL PODIUMKUNSTENFESTIVAL|publisher=}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://anagrammatically.com/2010/03/08/the-book-of-sand-el-libro-de-arena-by-borges-translated/ ''The Book of Sand''], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419171002/http://anagrammatically.com/2010/03/08/the-book-of-sand-el-libro-de-arena-by-borges-translated/ |date=19 April 2010 }} English translation
*''[http://bookofsand.net/hypertext/ The Book of Sand]'', English [[hypertext]] translation
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