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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Jorge Luis Borges, 1940 (in Ficciones, 1944)

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Borges's parallel imagining of a textual world that escapes its books into the world. A neighbour in spirit to Hesse's province.

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The Academy · May 27, 2026

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What does this material reveal? Where else does it lead?