Calle Belgrano: A Foreigner, a Nightmare, and a Valise
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a fifth-floor apartment on Calle Belgrano
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The Setting
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he was a tall man with blurred vague features...he was dressed in gray and carried a gray valise...he was a foreigner."
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Characterization
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"I felt it was a nightmare thing, an obscene thing, and that it defiled and corrupted reality. "
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Mood
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"I took advantage of the librarians' distraction to hide the Book of Sand on one of the library's damp shelves; I tried not to notice how high up or how far from the door."
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Resolution
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"Only later was I to realize that he had entered my house already determined to sell the book."
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Situational Irony
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People are never really free; something has power over them.
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Central Idea
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The Book of Sand represents ideas which have control over the narrator.
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Symbolism
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The narrator feels he is a prisoner of the Book implying that the Book has some metaphysical power.
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Conflict of character vs. nature
