"The Garden of Forking Paths" (original Spanish title: "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan") is a 1941 short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is the title story in the collection El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941), which was republished in its entirety in Ficciones ( Fictions ) in 1944.

The story was originally published in Spanish in Borges' 1941 collection of stories El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (The Garden of Forking Paths). That entire book was, in turn, included within his much-reprinted Ficciones ( 1944 ).

Literature. An early example of prolepsis which predates the postmodern period is Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol, in which the protagonist Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the future following his death. The subsequent events of the story imply that this future will be averted by this foreknowledge. External links. The dictionary definition of flashforward at Wiktionary

Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the state of North Dakota (after Fargo and Bismarck) and the county seat of Grand Forks County.According to the 2020 census, the city's population was 59,166. Grand Forks, along with its twin city of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, forms the center of the Grand Forks, ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is often called Greater Grand …

Plot summary "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" is written in the form of a review or literary critical piece about Pierre Menard, a fictional eccentric 20th-century French writer and polymath.It begins with a brief introduction and a listing of Menard's work. Borges' "review" describes Menard's efforts to go beyond a mere "translation" of Don Quixote by immersing himself so …

Quantum suicide is a thought experiment in quantum mechanics and the philosophy of physics.Purportedly, it can distinguish between the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and the many-worlds interpretation by means of a variation of the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, from the cat's point of view. Quantum immortality refers to the subjective …

Plot Opening sequence. A golden, lifeless statue of a man under a gazebo is shown in the forest. In the characters' past. In the Enchanted Forest, King George's men hunt for Prince James (Josh Dallas) who has fled his wedding to Princess Abigail (Anastasia Griffith).James narrowly escapes, with Abigail's help.

James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), Enrique Jardiel Poncela's La Tournée de Dios (1932), Jorge Luis Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths (1941), Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire (1962), Julio Cortázar's Rayuela (1963; translated as Hopscotch), and Italo Calvino's The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1973) are early examples predating the word "hypertext ...

Biografia. Jorge Luis Borges nasceu numa família burguesa e instruída. A mãe de Borges, Leonor Acevedo Suárez, veio de uma família tradicional uruguaia.O seu livro de 1929 Cuaderno San Martín incluiu um poema, "Isidoro Acevedo", em homenagem ao seu avô materno, Isidoro de Acevedo Laprida, um soldado do exército de Buenos Aires que se opunha contra o ditador …

"True North" is the ninth episode of the first season of the American fairy tale/drama television series Once Upon a Time. The series takes place in the fictional seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, in which the residents are actually characters from various fairy tales that were transported to the "real world" town by a powerful curse.