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[[File:Borges 1921.jpg|frame|Jorge Luis Borges in 1921]]
{{quote|"...it is clear that there is no classification of the Universe not being arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what thing the universe is."
|"The Analytical Language of John Wilkins"}}
'''Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo''' (1899-1986) is considered the greatest [[Argentina|Argentine]] writer of the twentieth century and an immensely influential author. His short stories, essays and poetry blend truth and fiction in unexpected ways, playing [[Mind Screw|Mind Screws]] on the reader at every turn, and exploring deep philosophical themes (idealism, determinism, infinity, the search for personal identity, fiction vs. reality, humanity vs. divinity...) in a rigorous but entertaining way. He is considered an important precursor and originator of many [[Post Modernism]] devices. Borges himself was an Ultraist, a short lived movement that originated in early XX century Spain (where Borges arrived around 1920).
Borges became blind due to an inherited disease in his middle age and blindness is a recurring [[Motif]] in his later works. Other common motifs are labyrinths, mirrors, libraries, tigers, and daggers. The blind monk Jorge de Burgos in [[Umberto Eco]]'s ''[[The Name of the Rose]]'' is one allusion to Borges. The blind librarian in ''The Shadow of the Torturer'' by [[Gene Wolfe]] may be another.
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* "[[Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius]]": An [[Ancient Conspiracy]] to create a complete fictional universe is discovered by the [[Author Stand In|narrator]] in the form of an encyclopedia describing the nation of Uqbar and its mythology about the land of Tlön. Its plan is to [[Rewriting Reality|recreate]] Earth in the form of Tlön by subconsciously persuading everyone that it is true. {{spoiler|They succeed.}}
* "The Library of Babel": [[Trope Namer]] for [[Library of Babel|the eponymous trope]], this story describes a universe consisting of a huge, endless library, that contains all possible books (that is to say, all possible combinations of letters, spaces, and punctuation given a certain number of characters per book)-- but arranged with no discernible order or pattern.
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