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This 5 page paper discusses Jorge Luis Borges' story "The Garden of the Forking Paths" and answers several questions about it, such as what Borges means when he says that the world is a labyrinth and only fiction that imitates those qualities can reflect it; and what the implications are for a person who holds such a worldview. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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in writing that challenges readers to make sense of its many layers and possible meanings. This paper uses the story as a basis to answer questions about it and about
Borges meanings. Discussion A very brief synopsis of the story is as follows. Dr. Yu Tsun is waiting for his execution and tells his story: he is a German
spy and needs to get word to Berlin about the location of a British artillery unit. Because he knows hes being watched, and will soon be arrested and executed, he
resorts to desperate measures; he finds a person with the same last name as the location of the guns, and murders him, knowing that his superior in Berlin will see
the news of the murder and arrest in the papers, and understand that that is where they should bomb. The irony is that the man he kills, Dr. Stephen Albert,
is a great lover of Chinese culture, and has done discovered that the "garden of forking paths," which was actually designed by Dr. Tsuns ancestor, is in fact a book,
not a garden at all. In other words, Tsun kills a man who is one of the few capable of understanding this puzzle. As he sits in his cell, Dr.
Tsun says no one can know his "innumerable contrition and weariness" (Borges). What does Borges mean when he claims the world is a labyrinth and that the only type of
fiction that can explain it is the fiction that imitates it? Is this type of fiction always seen as moving us forward and being curious? Borges means that the world
is so puzzling, complex and multi-layered that the only fictional work that can adequately represent it is one that is equally puzzling, complex and multi-layered, and one that engages our
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