Facts about Ficciones by Borges

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   Borges composed Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius as a story about an imaginary planet whose idealist philosophy gradually intrudes upon reality, becoming one of his most influential explorations of how ideas can reshape the material world.

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   According to Borges, the narrator of The Garden of Forking Paths is a Chinese spy named Yu Tsun sending a message through a published article during World War I.

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   In Ficciones, Borges references the fictional Chinese Encyclopedia of Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, which categorizes animals into fourteen absurdist classifications that influenced postmodern literary theory.

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   Borges wrote The Library of Babel, perhaps his most famous story in Ficciones, as a meditation on infinite knowledge and the impossibility of comprehensive understanding.

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   The 1944 first edition of Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges contained only seventeen stories, with additional tales added in the 1956 expanded edition.

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