Jorge Luis Borges

Borges in 3D

Nine stories, each built as a world you can walk into. Every world has its own look, taken from the feeling of its story, and the words on screen are brief passages from Borges in English, with the Spanish one click away.

A view inside Pierre Menard, Author of the QuixotePierre MenardThe turning picture A view inside The Circular RuinsThe Circular RuinsEmbers A view inside Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis TertiusTlön, Uqbar, Orbis TertiusChromolithograph A view inside The Library of BabelThe Library of BabelInk engraving A view inside The Garden of Forking PathsThe Garden of Forking PathsInk-wash handscroll A view inside The Lottery in BabylonThe Lottery in BabylonClay relief A view inside Funes the MemoriousFunes the MemoriousImpasto A view inside The AlephThe AlephSilver film A view inside The House of AsterionThe House of AsterionMetaphysical painting

Contents

  1. 1939Pierre Menard, Author of the QuixoteYou are Pierre Menard at your desk in Nîmes, writing Cervantes's exact sentence out of your own life while the room turns between 1934 and 1605.The turning picture
  2. 1940The Circular RuinsYou are the sorcerer in a burned temple, dreaming a man into being piece by piece: whatever you look at steadily becomes solid.Embers
  3. 1940Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis TertiusYou open the wrong volume of an encyclopaedia and follow it into an invented planet printed cleaner than the room you began in.Chromolithograph
  4. 1941The Library of BabelYou are a librarian, born among the hexagons, opening books of noise in search of one readable line.Ink engraving
  5. 1941The Garden of Forking PathsYou are Yu Tsun, a spy in England in 1916, walking a garden where every fork is taken both ways.Ink-wash handscroll
  6. 1941The Lottery in BabylonYou are a man of Babylon pressing your thumb into the clay of a lottery that runs the city, answered by a hand you never see.Clay relief
  7. 1942Funes the MemoriousYou stand in Funes's yard one night and see it as he does, every second of it kept, until the only mercy is to forget.Impasto
  8. 1945The AlephYou are Borges, lying on a cellar floor in 1941, about to see everything at once and unable to tell anyone what you saw.Silver film
  9. 1947The House of AsterionYou live alone in a sunlit house whose doors are never locked, waiting for a redeemer, never told what you are.Metaphysical painting