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The Library of Babel
Original title: La biblioteca de Babel
Jorge Luis Borges · 1941short story
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- Genrefantasy
- Themefaith and religion
- Toneeerie
"The Library of Babel" is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set.
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Placement
- contained in New Worlds of Fantasy #2anthology
- contained in The Mirror of Infinity: A Critics' Anthology of Science Fictionanthology