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A collection of novels, published in 1941, including seven short stories. Among them, "The Garden of Forking Paths" is Borges's most well-known work. It is a "detective novel in which the reader sees the implementation process and all the preparations for a crime." The spy Yu Zhun evaded the tracking of British officers and sneaked into the home of Sinologist Albert. He and Albert talked about a messy novel manuscript called "The Garden of Forking Paths", and suddenly shot and killed Albert, thereby successfully passing the intelligence to the Germans. The "novel-garden-maze" context first appeared in Borges's works 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.

A collection of essays, published in 1986, including more than 200 short essays written by Borges when he was the editor-in-chief of the "Foreign Books and Authors" column of the Buenos Aires magazine "Family". The words "Tofu Chunks" range from nightmares, metaphors, and time to the rhetorical intention of "The Divine Comedy" and the narrative rules of detective novels. From Shakespeare and Kafka to Cao Xueqin and Murasaki Shikibu, it is a collection of reading notes and writers' notes. Borges believed that the works of many "second- and third-rate" writers, or even the talk in the streets, might have something comparable to classics.