/lit/ - Literature

Can anyone explain what's going on in the end of Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius? Like, I get that the world is turning out more and more like Tlön and that this disturbs Borges, but he acts as if it's a big reveletation that Tlön was made up, but he already knew that Tlön was made up! That was the premise of the story. The revelation should have been that Uqbar didn't exist, but Uqbar was never important in the story other than as the place that had made up Tlön.

Can anyone explain what's going on in the end of Tlön, Uqbar. Orbis Tertius? Like, I get that the world is turning out more and more like Tlön and that this disturbs Borges, but he acts as if it's a big reveletation that Tlön was made up, but he already knew that Tlön was made up! That was the premise of the story. The revelation should have been that Uqbar didn't exist, but Uqbar was never important in the story other than as the place that had made up Tlön.