Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Here is a handsome edition of one of Borges' "ficciones," in a translation first published in "Labyrinths" in 1962. It's an important story in the Borges' canon, incorporating most of the author's philosophical and esthetic preoccupations in a typically brief compass. With great solemnity and a convincing array of scholarly detail (including annotated references to imaginary books and articles), Borges contocts a fable of an alternate world and its infiltration of our own. The reality of Tlon is idealist: material objects have no existence; language has no nouns; its principal discipline is psychology, since its inhabitants see the universe as nothing but a series of mental processes. A series of 24 illustrations accompanies the text. Their disturbing resemblances to our reality make them appropriate reflections of Borges's imaginative constructs.' — The Kingston "Whig-Standard"
- Author
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 78
- Publisher
- Porcupine's Quill
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780889840720
- Genres
- fiction, philosophy, fantasy, literature, classics, school
- Release date
- 1982
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