Jorge Luis Borges's ( 1939 ) short story Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, is often considered as predicting postmodernism and conceiving the ideal of the ultimate parody.

Uqbar is a fictional place in Jorge Luis Borges's 1940 short story " Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius ".

The last note to Borges's short story " The Library of Babel " briefly imagines a similar book, and links it to the work of the well-known mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri:

Mastronardi figures as a minor character in Borges's short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.

* The title of de Maistre's book " Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre " is cited in a verse by Carlos Argentino Daneri, a character in Jorge Luis Borges's short story " The Aleph ".

Pedro de Alvarado is identified as the torturer of Tzinacán, the narrator in Jorge Luis Borges's story " The God's Script " (" La Escritura del Dios "), first published in 1949.

Borges's story makes reference to the " obelisks " of Uqbar.

The title is a play on Borges's story " Funes El Memorioso ", known in English as " Funes, the Memorious ".

The story reiterates themes found elsewhere in Borges's writings.

Jorge Luis Borges's story, " Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote ," is a meta-fictive enactment of cryptomnesia.

The Spanish-language original was first published in book form in Borges's 1941 collection El Jardín de senderos que se bifurcan ( The Garden of Forking Paths ) which was, in turn, included in his much-reprinted Ficciones ( 1944 ).

In 1965 an album was released containing collaborations between Piazzolla and Jorge Luis Borges where Borges's poetry was narrated over very avant-garde music by Piazzolla including the use of dodecaphonic ( twelve-tone ) rows, free non-melodic improvisation on all instruments, and modal harmonies and scales.

Consequently, on the one hand hoaxes about Uqbar abound, and on the other, many writers have claimed that Borges's Uqbar is entirely fictional.

Nonetheless, there is at least one real place with the name Uqbar, in Algeria, as well as a town called Ukbara in Iraq, each of which seems to have at least some aspects in common with Borges's fictional Uqbar.

These places may plausibly have inspired the name and some other aspects of the Borges's Uqbar, although Borges's description of its culture is fictional.

A few of Borges's fictional creations include The Book of Sand, Herbert Quain ( author of April March, The Secret Mirror, etc.

The repeated motifs of Jorge Luis Borges's fictional works ( mirrors, labyrinths, tigers, etc.

Because Martín Fierro has been widely considered ( beginning with Leopoldo Lugones's El Payador, 1916 ) the fountainhead or pinnacle of Argentine literature, Argentina's Don Quixote or Divine Comedy, and because Borges was certainly Argentina's greatest twentieth-century writer, Borges's 1953 book of essays about the poem and its critical and popular reception-El " Martín Fierro " ( written with Margarita Guerrero )-gives insight into Borges's identity as an Argentine.

In his book of essays, Borges displays his typical concision, evenhandedness, and love of paradox, but he also places himself in the spectrum of views of Martín Fierro and, thus, effectively, gives a clue as to his ( Borges's ) relation to nationalist myth.

According to amazon. co. uk, in the Axiomatic stories: " Egan delivers shocking body-blows to received ideas in thought-experiment stories that like Jorge Luis Borges's philosophical squibs are booby-trapped with terrible truths and paradoxes.

In Borges's own case, these are an Argentine national tradition and one more European.

In 1940, he figured as a minor character in Borges's semi-fictional " Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius "; in 1944, he illustrated a limited edition ( 300 copies ) of " Un modelo para la muerte ", written by Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, writing together under the pseudonym B. Suárez Lynch.

Hinton was one of the many abstruse thinkers who circulated in Jorge Luis Borges's pantheon of writers.

* Stanislaw Lem wrote several books containing methods and ideas similar to Jorge Luis Borges's fiction.

* A peryton closely matching Borges's original description is a minor villain in The Cinnabar Box, a fantasy novel by Ilil Arbel.

Edwin Williamson, Borges's biographer, stated that the author's support of Argentine and Chilean right-wing military dictators may have been a factor.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

* William S. Burroughs, novelist, short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer

Some consider this more of a short story collection ; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.

* AM, short for Allied Mastercomputer, a fictional supercomputer in the short story " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "

Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.

For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.

* 1936 Love from a Stranger ( dramatised by Frank Vosper from the short story Philomel Cottage )

* 1939 Tea for Three ( dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident )

In the short story The Chocolate Box ( 1923 ) Poirot provides Captain Arthur Hastings with an account of what he considers to be his only failure.

As a result, Suchet will have filmed adaptations of every Poirot novel, and all but one Poirot short story.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

Niece Mabel, widow of the mysteriously dead Geoffrey Denham, stars in the 1927 short story " The Thumb Mark of Saint Peter ".

* " The Tuesday Night Club " ( short story ) featured Miss Marple for the first time ever.

* The Thirteen Problems ( short story collection featuring Miss Marple, also published as The Tuesday Club Murders ) ( 1932 )

Miss Marple also appears in Greenshaw's Folly, a short story traditionally included as part of the Poirot collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ( 1960 ).

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The book includes some material from the short story The Salesman's Tale, and some unpublished material cut from Prince of Chaos, notably Coral's pregnancy by Merlin.

* Moriarty by Modem, a short story by Jack Nimersheim, describes an alternate history where Babbage's Analytical Engine was indeed completed and had been deemed highly classified by the British government.

This short story follows Holmes as his program is rebooted on modern computers and he is forced to compete against his nemesis yet again in the modern counterparts of Babbage's Analytical Engine.

* Absalom is the name of a short science fiction story by Henry Kuttner about the conflict between a father and son over the son's education.

One ansible-like device which predates Le Guin's is the Dirac communicator in James Blish's 1954 short story " Beep ".

* The short story " There Are More Things " by Jorge Luis Borges from The Book of Sand refers to an amphisbaena and concerns a similar, though mostly undescribed, monster.

* Paul Auster's collection of short stories entitled True Tales of American Life contains a story (' Mathematical Aphrodisiac ' by Alex Galt ) in which amicable numbers play an important role.