Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jorge Luis Borges
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: 1935-1947
- Setting: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Herbert Ashe, Ezra Buckley
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Surrealism, Reality, Imagination, Idealism, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations
- Locales: Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Story
“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” depicts a fantastic world, which gradually, during the course of the story, acquires a tenacious and undermining hold on reality. The story is told in the form of a memoir that mixes the narrator's personal reminiscences with essayistic account, plausible events in Buenos Aires with the fantastic inventions of an imaginary land (Tlön), and fictional characters (Herbert Ashe, Ezra Buckley) with the names of Borges's real friends (Adolfo Bioy Casares, Carlos Mastronardi, Nestor Ibarra, Ezequiel Martinez Estrada, Drieu La Rochelle,...
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