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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
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'"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is a 1940 Magic Realism short story by Jorge Luis Borges. Although it's only a few thousand words long and not a particularly easy read, it quickly became one of the most influential works of fiction of the 1940's.The report begins with an unnamed narrator, who becomes fascinated with the land of "Uqbar" that a friend tells him of. Uqbar, as it turns out, only exists in an article found in only one copy of one edition of The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia, and the article is mostly self-referential.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Slowly, however, more details on Uqbar start finding their way into the narrator's life. The purported nation seemingly once had an extensive mythology, based around the mythical land of Tlön. Tlön's philosophy and linguistics paint a fascinating picture of a holistic mysticism. Using the mindset of this mythical land, its inhabitants could allegedly find things simply by expecting to find them, regardless of whether or not these things existed previously. In the minds of these mythical Tlön people that the Uqbar culture spoke of, simply thinking, or writing, about objects and events could cause them to be real.The narrator decides that both Uqbar and its stories of Tlön can only be inventions of a particularly creative author — or rather, a group of natural scientists and philosophers who combined their knowledge to create such complicated Worldbuilding.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" directly inspired many popular works of fiction, most notably the Codex Seraphinianus. Its cultural impact can also be found in Myst and, prominently, in House of Leaves. | |
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Death of the Author: Discussed In-Universe. In accordance with their disbelief in discrete objects (see Starfish Language), Tlönese literary criticism is said to involve attributing unrelated stories to the same author and analysing the implications for the author's worldview. | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe: The people of Tlön believe it, and uncritical Cyclopedia readers believe that Uqbar believes Tlön believes it, which allows Tlön to creep into reality. In other words, believing makes "believing makes it real" real. | |
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Author Appeal: Reference materials as an intersection between fiction and reality. Labyrinths. Footnotes. Literary criticism. | |
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