Readings

Week 1 – Choice and Chance

“Avatars of the Tortoise,” “The Garden of Forking Paths,” and “The Lottery in Babylon”

Week 2 – Bibliographic Labyrinths

“The Library of Babel” and “The Book of Sand”

Week 3 – Unlimited Sense and Memory

“The Aleph,” “Funes, the Memorious,” and “Shakespeare’s Memory”

Week 4 – False History and Biography

“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” and “The Other Death”

Week 5 – Recursive Ruins

“The Circular Ruins” and “Ibn-Hakkan al-Bokhari, Dead in His Labyrinth”

Week 6 – Author Meets Writer

“Borges and Myself,” “The Other,” and “August 25, 1983”