The Garden of Forking Paths (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jorge Luis Borges
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Plot: Mystery and detective
- Time of Work: 1916
- Setting: Staffordshire, England
- Principal Characters: Captain Richard Madden, Dr. Yu Tsun, Dr. Stephen Albert
- Genres: Short fiction, Mystery and detective literature, Fantasy
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Fantasy, Mysteries, Espionage or spies
- Locales: Staffordshire, England
The Story
In the prologue to the original edition of El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941), the work in which the short story of the same title was published, Jorge Luis Borges classifies the tale as “a detective story” and says that “its readers will assist at the execution, and all the preliminaries, of a crime, a crime whose purpose will not be unknown to them but which they will not understand—it seems to me—until the last paragraph.” The other pieces, he says, are all fantasies. Whether “The Garden of Forking Paths” is a detective story, a...
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