Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

English language

Published Aug. 2, 1983

ISBN:: 978-0-88984-072-0

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"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is a short story by the 20th-century Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in the Argentinian 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. Told in a first-person narrative, the story focuses on the author's discovery of the mysterious and possibly fictional country of Uqbar and its legend of Tlön, a mythical world whose inhabitants believe a form of subjective idealism, denying the reality of objects and nouns, as well as Orbis Tertius, the secret organization that created both fictional locations. Relatively long for Borges (approximately 5,600 words), the story is a work of speculative fiction. The story alludes to many leading intellectual figures both in Argentina and in the world at large, and takes up a number of themes …

"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is a short story by the 20th-century Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in the Argentinian 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. Told in a first-person narrative, the story focuses on the author's discovery of the mysterious and possibly fictional country of Uqbar and its legend of Tlön, a mythical world whose inhabitants believe a form of subjective idealism, denying the reality of objects and nouns, as well as Orbis Tertius, the secret organization that created both fictional locations. Relatively long for Borges (approximately 5,600 words), the story is a work of speculative fiction. The story alludes to many leading intellectual figures both in Argentina and in the world at large, and takes up a number of themes more typical of a novel of ideas. Most of the ideas engaged are in the areas of metaphysics, language, epistemology, and literary criticism.

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Encyclopædia Britannica, de Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Die Erdkunde im Verhältnis zur Natur und Geschichte des Menschen, de Carl Ritter.
The Analysis of Mind, de Bertrand Russell.
Aporías, de Zenón de Elea.
Parerga und Paralipomena, de Arthur Schopenhauer.
Philosophie des Als Ob, de Hans Vaihinger.
Dào Dé Jing, de Laozi.
Las mil y una noches, anónimo.
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk, de Thomas Browne.
Mención a los escritores Adolfo Bioy Casares, Johannes Valentinus Andreae, Néstor Ibarra, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Alfonso Reyes Ochoa, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, David Hume, George Berkeley, Xul Solar, Baruch Spinoza, William Shakespeare, Charles Howard Hinton, George Dalgarno, Francisco de Quevedo.

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