tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post5799031489102515926..comments2024-03-27T10:53:14.239-04:00Comments on Wormwoodiana: Borges and a Forgotten BookDouglas A. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-44382669014935084332022-12-29T10:03:39.691-05:002022-12-29T10:03:39.691-05:00This reminds me of the hoax perpetrated by the Aut...This reminds me of the hoax perpetrated by the Author's Club in 1918. They published a book about an imaginary Russian author. The book was _Fedor Vladimir Larrovitch: An Appreciation of His Life and Works_, complete with illustrations of the writer and pages of manuscript in his handwriting. It was completely serious. Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-91878943529655744352022-12-28T14:56:41.968-05:002022-12-28T14:56:41.968-05:00There's an incident I recall from an excellent...There's an incident I recall from an excellent book on hoaxes- a writer created a fictional Russian author / artist & managed to stage an exhibition of his work. He commissioned an elderly expat to write his "reminiscences" of his supposed friend and pupil but said that the writer's mind was going & the result was rather touching because he half believed that this friendEric Stotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230291249030014518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-28131974819762043992022-09-03T19:17:33.815-04:002022-09-03T19:17:33.815-04:00Everything in Borges' world becomes a part of ...Everything in Borges' world becomes a part of Borges' world. Roderick Millarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18195084144045739107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-72224523961011624242017-08-04T15:59:25.638-04:002017-08-04T15:59:25.638-04:00That's possible baduin, though I do think Borg...That's possible baduin, though I do think Borges might have been taking a piss and doing an experiment where he wrote all about the contents of a book that never existed. Could be he deliberately completely altered the finale of the book as what we today would call an attempt to be meta ?D. Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03477842312277593447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-41590030312356683052017-03-13T22:38:18.015-04:002017-03-13T22:38:18.015-04:00Way cool! One of my favorite Borges stories. I had...Way cool! One of my favorite Borges stories. I hadn't thought to look at the chronology. Thanks! Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-2931068378721761302017-03-13T21:34:58.107-04:002017-03-13T21:34:58.107-04:00You have found the origin of Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tert...You have found the origin of Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertius<br /><br />"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is a short story by the 20th-century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in the Argentine journal Sur, May 1940. baduinhttp://baduin.livejournal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-60500850787564956152017-03-13T19:09:18.701-04:002017-03-13T19:09:18.701-04:00Of course, the trope about the invented becoming a...Of course, the trope about the invented becoming accepted reality recalls Machen's Bowmen story.Sandy Robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08064756302394502872noreply@blogger.com