Fiction Makes the World in Borges' Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

My Novel Lionel Lancet and the Right Vibe is out now. https://bit.ly/3g7H3JM Tiktok and IG: Danielbackerauthor Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3iQpfoh If you'd like to donate to the channel: https://ko-fi.com/danielbackerauthor ---------- If you enjoyed this video, please consider sharing it with a friend who also likes Borges. In this video, I do my best to navigate the labyrinth of Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, the first story in Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, the famous Argentine literary genius and master of post-modern fiction. This one is very heady and is a great example of metafiction that makes a profound statement about philosophy and how a philosophical lens organizes the world. Furthermore, Borges shows us how philosophical lenses and language and perception are fictions, but that doesn't make them any less consequential. In spite of the heady themes, Borges brings the big ideas down to earth by the end showing how prominent (and often disastrous) ideas in the 20th century had profound effects on the world in spite of their fictitious nature. I by no means had the time or the brain capacity to integrate every facet of this story into my analysis. Doing so would simply create a perfect copy of the story, or perhaps an analysis many times longer than the story. So, I focused on Tlön's language and the multiple layers of reality in this story and how they make statements about each other. The images and music at the beginning are a part of a longer music video that can be found on my instagram: danielbackerauthor The David Foster Wallace video I mentioned can be found here:    • Philosophy in David Foster Wallace's Fiction   www.danielbacker.com