An edition of Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1982)

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An edition of Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1982)

Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

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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. 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.



Contained in:
70 años de narrativa argentina
Antología de la literatura fantástica
Borges Esencial
Ficciones
His Obras completas: Historia universal de la infamia
El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan
Labyrinths
Obras Completas 1: 1923-1949
Widow-Ching Pirate
Zwei Labyrinthe Lesebuch

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Publisher
Porcupine's Quill
Language
English

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1983, Porcupine's Quill
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Cover of: Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
October 1, 1982, Porcupine's Quill
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Paperback
Dimensions
8.8 x 5.6 x 0.2 inches
Weight
5 ounces

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OL8214347M
ISBN 10
0889840725
ISBN 13
9780889840720
OCLC/WorldCat
10329881
Library Thing
1599624
Goodreads
929587

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