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Summary
(IBList user synopsis):
The narrator first learns of the existence of the imaginary country of Uqbar from a pirated volume of an encyclopedia. Soon, however, he finds more material relating to this extraordinary world, which was created by a secret society of intellectuals, but which soon seems to take on a life of its own.
Original title: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Original languages:
Spanish
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Genre: Fiction→ Fantasy→ Literary Fantasy
This work is a subwork of the following works : Book of Fantasy, the (1940) [Anthology] Authors: Lewis Carroll
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Rudyard Kipling
, Ambrose Bierce
, Ray Bradbury
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Franz Kafka
, James Joyce
, Mary Shelley
, Leo Tolstoy
, Edith Wharton
, Oscar Wilde
, William Butler Yeats
, Voltaire
, Lord Dunsany
, Arthur Machen
, Olaf Stapledon
, J. G. Ballard
, Julio Cortázar
, Jorge Luis Borges
, G. K. Chesterton
, Thomas Carlyle
, Guy de Maupassant
, Francois Rabelais
, Evelyn Waugh
, Petronius Arbiter
, Saki
, B. Traven
, W. W. Jacobs
, Barry Perowne
, Thomas Bailey Aldrich
, Edward Lucas White
, Ryunosuke Akutagawa
, Walter de la Mare
, Max Beerbohm
, I. A. Ireland
, May Sinclair
, Jean Cocteau
, Juan Manuel
, Silvina Ocampo
, Léon Bloy
, Giovanni Papini
, Adolfo Bioy Casares
, Leonid Andreyev
, John Aubrey
, Tor Ĺge Bringsvaerd
, Delia Ingenieros
, Ah'med Ech Chiruani
, Martin Buber
, Arturo Cancela
, Pilar de Lusarreta
, Chuang Tzu
, Santiago Dabove
, Alexandra David-Neel
, Macedonio Fernández
, James George Frazer
, Elena Garro
, Herbert A. Giles
, Leopoldo Lugones
, Edwin Morgan
, H. A. Murena
, Niu Chiao
, Carlos Peralta
, Manuel Peyrou
, P'u Sung Ling
, W. W. Skeat
, Emanuel Swedenborg
, Juan Rudolfo Wilcock
, Richard Wilhelm
, G. Willoughby-Meade
, Ts'ao Hsueh-Ch'in
, Auguste Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
, Wu Ch'Eng En
, José Zorrilla
Ficciones (1944) [Collection] Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (1962) [Collection] Author: Jorge Luis Borges
World of the Short Story, the (1986) [Anthology] Authors: William Faulkner
, F. Scott Fitzgerald
, Graham Greene
, Ernest Hemingway
, Franz Kafka
, Milan Kundera
, D. H. Lawrence
, Ivo Andrić
, Saul Bellow
, Isaac Bashevis Singer
, Nadine Gordimer
, Robert Penn Warren
, Katherine Anne Porter
, Bernard Malamud
, Jean Stafford
, Eudora Welty
, John Cheever
, John Updike
, Peter Taylor
, Philip Roth
, Truman Capote
, Donald Barthelme
, Gabriel García Márquez
, Yukio Mishima
, Margaret Atwood
, Vladimir Nabokov
, W. Somerset Maugham
, Doris Lessing
, Joyce Carol Oates
, E.B. White
, Carson McCullers
, Julio Cortázar
, Flannery O'Connor
, Jorge Luis Borges
, Morley Callaghan
, Mary Lavin
, Frank O'Connor
, Sean O'Faolain
, Mark Helprin
, John O'Hara
, Katherine Mansfield
, James Thurber
, Raymond Carver
, Isaac Babel
, William Trevor
, Elizabeth Bowen
, V. S. Pritchett
, Irwin Shaw
, Max Beerbohm
, Colette
, A. E. Coppard
, William Sansom
, Alice Munro
, Kay Boyle
, Yuri Kazakov
, Cynthia Ozick
, Horacio Quiroga
, Dino Buzzati
, Tadeusz Borowski
, Ann Beattie
, Mavis Gallant
, Aníbal Monteiro Machado
World Treasury of Science Fiction, the (1989) [Anthology] Authors: Arthur C. Clarke
, Ursula K. Le Guin
, Kurt Vonnegut
, Alfred Bester
, Isaac Asimov
, Ray Bradbury
, Philip K. Dick
, Robert A. Heinlein
, John Updike
, Stanislaw Lem
, Brian W. Aldiss
, Frederik Pohl
, Samuel R. Delany
, Thomas M. Disch
, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
, Anthony Burgess
, Keith Roberts
, Larry Niven
, John Varley
, Fritz Leiber
, Henry Kuttner
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Robert Bloch
, Damon Knight
, Cyril M. Kornbluth
, Robert Sheckley
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Avram Davidson
, Arkady Strugatsky
, Boris Strugatsky
, Boris Vian
, J. G. Ballard
, Gene Wolfe
, Lewis Padgett
, Italo Calvino
, Jorge Luis Borges
, Joanna Russ
, John W. Campbell
, Steve Allen
, Josef Nesvadba
, Karl-Michael Armer
, Gérard Klein
, Manuel van Loggem
, Kirill Bulychev
, Tor Ĺge Bringsvaerd
, Nathalie-Charles Henneberg
, Kono Tensei
, John Berryman
, Rene Rebetez-Cortes
, Annemarie van Ewyck
Fantasy Hall of Fame, the (1998) [Anthology] Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin
, Roger Zelazny
, Ray Bradbury
, Philip K. Dick
, Robert A. Heinlein
, Shirley Jackson
, Harlan Ellison
, Tanith Lee
, Lucius Shepard
, Peter S. Beagle
, Poul Anderson
, James Blish
, L. Sprague de Camp
, Jack Vance
, Clifford D. Simak
, Fritz Leiber
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Robert Bloch
, Robert Silverberg
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Avram Davidson
, J. G. Ballard
, Gene Wolfe
, Jorge Luis Borges
, R. A. Lafferty
, Anthony Boucher
, Horace. L. Gold
, Terry Bisson
, Margaret St. Clair
, Ted Chiang
Everything and Nothing (1999) [Collection] Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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