作为世界文坛最有成就的作家之一,博尔赫斯从不着力于塑造鲜明的人物形象,而是善于使用极具个人特征且形象化的意象来表达对宇宙、对人生的哲思。迷宫、书籍、沙漏是其作品中经常出现的意象。《两个国王和两个迷宫》中的沙漠迷宫,诗歌《沙漏》中记录时间的沙漏和《沙之书》中像沙子一样的无限之书,它们都是作者塑造出的以沙子为构成元素的关于"无限"的原型。这些原型或实或虚,但都体现出作者面对无限之物时进行的人生哲思。
Borges ,as one of the most successful writers , never focuses on creating distinctive personalities .He is good at crea-ting images with personal style and visualization to express his wise thoughts about the life and the world , such as labyrinth , books and sandglass ,which are popular images in his works .The desert labyrinth in the navel Two Kings and Two Labyrinths ,the sandg-lass which is used as a time -recorder in the poetry The Sandglass and the infinite book in the navel The Book of Sand , all com-posed of sand , are shaped by the writer as the prototypes of “infinite”.The real or imaginary prototypes express writer ’ s wise thoughts about life when facing infinite things .