Jorge Luis Borges is considered to be the most important writer of the twentieth century. This is a big deal considering the fact that there were some great writer of the twentieth century. The book collected fictions has a lot of short stories written by Borges. There is a huge commonality between the majority of the stories despite the different contexts. Majority of the stories shared the same major themes that are underlining themes that Borges is known for writing about, which are journey, immortality, and labyrinth. Not only does the stories share the same themes, but Borges has a constant writing style that he use in his writing. The stories typically consist of the “famous lists,” along with incomplete beginnings and/or endings. There are so many stories that can be used in this essay, but the main stories of focus will be: The South, The Immortal, The Garden of Forking Paths, and The Library of Babel.
The South is a short story about a man, Dahlmann being injured, getting sent to a sanatorium, and suddenly being released. He travels to the south, become involved in
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Borges is telling a story about the journey of a German spy named Tsun. (119-128) The purpose of this journey is for him to discover the location of the British artillery park. Just like the other stories the beginning is complete. Borges starts with saying that the first two pages of the statement was missing. (119) The ending of the story was pretty much complete. Although Tsun was sentenced to hanging for his spy work, he still felt immortal. He knew that the information that he revealed will still live even though that he will be dead. The labyrinth of the story would be the maze in the garden and the maze that Tsun had to go through in order to actually discover the target location. Another labyrinth could be work of the Germans to solve the riddle that Tsun left by killing the man because his name was