A world
The Fictions of Borges
Imagined by Jorge Luis Borges.
3 volumes
The Book of Sand Quoted
Unknown — The Fictions of Borges · Jorge Luis Borges
A cloth-bound octavo bought from a Bible seller in Buenos Aires. It has infinite pages, none of which can ever be found twice.
A First Encyclopaedia of Tlön Described
An anonymous secret society, over three centuries — The Fictions of Borges · Jorge Luis Borges
Volume XI of a forty-volume encyclopaedia describing a planet that does not exist, in such completeness that the planet begins to.
The Garden of Forking Paths Described
Ts'ui Pên — The Fictions of Borges · Jorge Luis Borges
An incoherent manuscript left by a Chinese governor who abandoned power to write a novel and build a labyrinth. His heirs found the novel unreadable and the labyrinth missing. They were the same object.