Tlon Uqbar Orbis and Tertius
The author owes the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. The book and the mirror become symbols of a mystical labyrinth. From there, there is a dialogue with Herbert Ashe, a man of mystery and enchantment, Borges in the first person traces the inventor of Tlon to the philosopher Leibniz. From there Borges traces the idealism of the metaphysical world. In the language of Tlon, there are no nouns, so to speak, but only verbs. For example, moon is a verb: moonate. The objects are composed of two terms, one the visual and the other auditory. For example, the color of the rising sun, the cry of a distant bird. An interesting thought is that the future has no reality but the present hope. Language is a game of paradoxes. Nouns have a metaphorical value.
The Garden of Forking Paths
The Garden of Forking Paths is a metaphorical dualism of symbols. The story is narrated in the first person. Captain Richard Madden goes to Dr. Stephen Albert’s house. They discuss labyrinths and the garden of forking paths. The narrator shoots Albert and Madden arrests the narrator. The narrator was able to tell the Germans about the bombing of a place in England.
The Lottery in Babylon
The Lottery in Babylon is a symbolic secret of chance to win or lose. Lotteries failed because they were not directed at the faculties of man but at hope.
Pierre Menard the author of Don Quixote
The author Borges writes about an imaginary Don Quixote that does not exist. Don Quixote is a language game of words. In it he makes History the mother of truths.
The Circular Ruins
In the circular ruins, a man is prone to dreams and visions. These dreams belong to esoteric wisdom. Man reaches a period of enlightenment. The universe proposes a grandiose plan for man to enact. The dreams are full of wit and irony showing a protest of Socratic humor.
the library of babel
In the Library of Babel, the narrator compares the Universe to that of a library. The library is endless. The man is an imperfect librarian. The limitations of the alphabet do not prevent language from creating infinity.
Funes the Memorable
The author narrates the strange behavior of a man. He tells the story of a man who had been tragically mauled by a feral horse. Funes has a phenomenal memory.
the shape of the sword
There is a man who has a scar on his face and tells how they put a sword through his face. There is a hint of revolution in Ireland.
The theme of the traitor and the hero
In the theme of the traitor and the hero, there is the protagonist, Kilpatrick, who is paradoxically an enemy and a hero.
death and the compass
A series of puzzling murders occurs that can be traced back to historical and literary reasons.
the secret miracle
A person is sentenced to hang by the Gestapo. In prison, he suffers from the delirium of death. Man, the protagonist has a literary lineage. There is a brilliant narrative that describes the agonies of death.
Three Versions of Judas
In it, the author’s first argument is that all the accusations against Judas are absurd and false. Is there a need to betray Christ, who is a popular figure? He then goes on to explain the Platonic idea of forms, which is what ever in the real world has an ideal form in the spiritual world.
The Phoenix Sect
The sect of the Phoenix is a mystical sect that embraces the Philosophy of Esotericism. The doctrines of the sect are similar to the phoenix that renews itself from the flames.
The inmortal
This is a fable in search of immortality. Immortality is examined as a search for meaning in life. There is a conversation about God who is an excavator of meaning.
theologians
In it, there is an enigmatic description of the wheel, the symbol and the serpent juxtaposed with an aura of mysticism. The author reflects on the meaning of time. Once again, he goes on to say that the vilest of all sinners can be cleansed by the blood of Jesus.
The story of the warrior and the captive
This is the story of a warrior who paradoxically becomes a captive.
emma zunz
The story begins with the suicide of Emma’s father. Her father is wrongfully accused of embezzling cash. Emma executes her father’s boss, Lowenthal.
Asterion’s house
Asterion’s house is a mysterious mythical place. There is a mystical connotation of the number 14.
Deutsch’s Requiem
This is a legend of a man facing death for being a murderer. He is a man who is inspired by philosophers and playwrights. The birth and death of a man has been predestined.
Averroës Search
Averroes is a mystical man whose academic interests lie in books and literature. In it, there is an exposition that there is no other God but Allah. He goes on to say that writing is an art.
Zahir
The Zahir is made up of many things such as a coin, a tiger, a mosque blind, an astrolabe and a compass. Later in the Zahir, the writer speaks of a maiden Clementia. Her death moved the author to tears. The coin, Zahir, symbolized the free will of man. Everything, even the mind and imagination is a Zahir.
the wait
A man gets out of a taxi. This man is called Villari. For Villari, the coincidence of art and reality was foreign to him. He was a man full of weariness. Villari reads Dante’s Divine Comedy and believes that hell does not exist.
God’s script
There is a person in captivity in a cell. In the cell, the man is contemplating the order of serpents carved in stone. He wonders about God’s mysterious script. The symbol is a magical element of thought. Ecstasy is not repeated in symbols. God for him as a concept has been a resplendent light, a sword in the circles of a rose, and also a rose.
The Argentine writer and the tradition
The Argentine tradition exists in gauchesca poetry. The classic poem by Martín Fierro is related to the Homeric Poems. Poems are composed on themes of love, loneliness, nature and romance. Poetry also talks about abstract themes such as time, space and the sea. Borges wonders if literature should address national issues. Argentine history wants to free itself from Spanish influences.
The wall and the books
In it, the author mentions the emperor of China who built the Great Wall of China and ordered the burning of books.
Pascal’s fearsome sphere
Universal history is the history of a handful of metaphors. The sphere is the most uniform and perfect thing that exists. Divinity in its perfection is represented as a sphere. God is an intelligent sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
Partial magic in Don Quixote
Don Quixote is a work of realism. The novel served the purpose of parodying the elegant traditions of chivalry. Every novel is an ideal plane inserted in the realm of reality.
Valery as a symbol
Valery is a symbol of infinite skills. Valery personifies the labyrinths of the mind. Valery is a symbol of Europe in a delicate twilight. Valery upon his death leaves us with the symbol of the man who is very sensitive.