Short Stories by Jorge Luis Borges (Book Guide): Tl N, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, the Library of Babel, the Garden of Forking Paths

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (stories not included). Pages: 30. Chapters: Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The Library of Babel, The Garden of Forking Paths, Funes the Memorious, Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, The Book of Sand, The Aleph, The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim, Blue Tigers, The South, The Congress, There Are More Things, The Theologians, The Immortal, Death and the Compass, The Circular Ruins, Three Versions of Judas, The Secret Miracle, The House of Asterion, The Sect of the Phoenix, The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths, The Form of the Sword, An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain, The Lottery in Babylon, On Exactitude in Science, The Dead Man, Shakespeare's Memory, The Disk, Averroes's Search, The End, Theme of the Traitor and the Hero, The Gospel According to Mark, Deutsches Requiem, The Writing of the God, Ulrikke, The Other, The Zahir, Borges and I, Emma Zunz, The Encounter, The Wait. Excerpt: Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is a short story by the 20th century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in the Argentine journal Sur, May 1940. The postscript dated 1947 is intended to be anachronistic, set seven years in the future. The first English-language translation of the story was published in 1961. In the story, an encyclopedia article about a mysterious country called Uqbar is the first indication of Orbis Tertius, a massive conspiracy of intellectuals to imagine (and thereby create) a world known as Tlon. Relatively long for Borges (approximately 5,600 words), the story is a work of speculative fiction. One of the major themes of Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is that ideas ultimately manifest themselves in the physical world and the story is generally viewed as a parabolic discussion of Berkeleian idealism - and to some degree as a protest against totalitarianism. Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius has the struct...