Garden of Forking Paths
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
A Garden of Forking Paths is a Short Story that ...
- See: The Book of Sand, Anthony Boucher, Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, Spy Fiction, War Novel, Ficciones, Short Story, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Many-Worlds Interpretation, Quantum Mechanics, Olaf Stapledon.
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Forking_Paths Retrieved:2023-10-5.
- "The Garden of Forking Paths" (original Spanish title: "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan") is a 1941 short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is the title story in the collection El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941), which was republished in its entirety in Ficciones (Fictions) in 1944. It was the first of Borges's works to be translated into English by Anthony Boucher when it appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in August 1948.
The story's theme has been said to foreshadow the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.[1][2] It may have been inspired by work of the philosopher and science fiction author Olaf Stapledon.
Borges's vision of "forking paths" has been cited as inspiration by numerous new media scholars, in particular within the field of hypertext fiction.[3] Other stories by Borges that explore the idea of infinite texts include "The Library of Babel" and "The Book of Sand".[3]
- "The Garden of Forking Paths" (original Spanish title: "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan") is a 1941 short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is the title story in the collection El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941), which was republished in its entirety in Ficciones (Fictions) in 1944. It was the first of Borges's works to be translated into English by Anthony Boucher when it appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in August 1948.