Fictional Set

This book is a representative collection of short stories by Borges, the Argentine poet, novelist, critic, and translator, and a master of Spanish literature. It includes two sixteen novels, "The Garden of Forking Paths" and "The Collection of Fictions." In 1944, Borges officially published these stories under the name "The Collection of Fictions." Borges named his iconic work directly after "fiction", which was also the final form of Borges' version of "The Garden of Forking Paths". "The Garden of Forking Paths", published in 1941, is Borges's most well-known novel. The context of "novel-garden-time-maze" appeared for the first time in Borges' writing and became a keyword in his art. The understanding of different sequences of time that are parallel, divergent, converging, or intertwined is integrated into writing, and endless possibilities arise from this. "Apocryphal Collection" continues the theme of fictional legendary stories. The collection of novels includes the author's "most proud story" "The South", which is regarded as a turning point in Borges's writing. The protagonist, Dahlman, the secretary of the Municipal Library of Buenos Aires, was inexplicably scratched on his forehead by something when he went upstairs. He had a high fever and constant nightmares, and was admitted to a nursing home. After his condition improved, he decided to return to the southern manor left by his ancestors to recuperate. He took a taxi, took a train, and walked all the way. Finally, he walked into a grocery store to eat on an impromptu basis, but was involved in a duel and died under the knife of his opponent. This story has another reading in Borges's language labyrinth: Dahlmann did not die. The journey back to the southern manor was actually a dream he had while lying on the hospital bed. He died in a duel in the dream. A man in an ordinary life chose the vigorous way of death he longed for in the dream. Since then, the complete elimination of the binary opposition between reality and fiction has become Borges's most common writing technique.