History Literature / TlonUqbarOrbisTertius

* TheDeathOfTheAuthor: Discussed. In accordance with their disbelief in discrete objects (see StarfishLanguage), Tlönese literary criticism is said to involve attributing unrelated stories to the same author and analysing the implications for the author's worldview.

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* MindScrew: As is anything by this author.

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* StarfishLanguage: The languages of Tlön have no nouns but only verbs or adjectives, reflecting the philosophy of its speakers (they see the world not as a set of objects with continuity in time, but a succession of events and transitory qualities). The phrase "The moon rose above the river" is translated into Tlönian as ''Hlör u fang axaxaxas mlö'', which approximates to "Upward behind the onstreaming it mooned."
* UnreliableNarrator: [[ConversationalTroping Conversed]]. The story begins with the narrator and his friend discussing how one might write a novel with an narrator so subtly unreliable that only a few perceptive readers would discover the truth.

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* AncientConspiracy
* DirectLineToTheAuthor

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis
* MindScrew

* RewritingReality

* WorldBuilding
* YourMindMakesItReal

->''Tlön is surely a labyrinth, but it is a labyrinth devised by men, a labyrinth destined to be deciphered by men.''

An addendum to the report, dated 1947, is repentant rather than speculative. [[spoiler: The narrator was right: Uqbar and Tlön were indeed made up by a 17th century secret society named Orbis Tertius... with the goal of eventually writing Tlön into reality. They ''succeed''.]]

An addendum to the report, dated 1947, is repentant rather than speculative. [[spoiler: The narrator was right: Uqbar and Tlön were indeed made up by a 17th century secret society... with the goal of eventually writing Tlön into reality. They ''succeed''.]]

* StarfishLanguage: The languages of Tlön have no nouns but only verbs or adjectives, reflecting the philosophy of its speakers (they see the world not as a set of objects with continuity in time, but a succession of events and transitory qualities).

!! ''Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'' provides examples of:

''Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'' directly inspired many popular works of fiction, most notably the ''Literature/CodexSeraphinianus''. Its cultural impact can also be found in ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' and, prominently, in ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves''.

''Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'' is a 1940 MagicRealism short story by Creator/JorgeLuisBorges. Although it's only a few thousand words long and not a particularly easy read, it quickly became one of the most influential works of fiction of the 1940's.

--> Tlön is surely a labyrinth, but it is a labyrinth devised by men, a labyrinth destined to be deciphered by men.

''Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'' directly inspired many popular works of fiction, most notably the CodexSeraphinianus. Its cultural impact can also be found in ''{{Myst}}'' and, prominently, in ''HouseOfLeaves''.

The report begins with an unnamed narrator, who becomes fascinated with the land of "Uqbar" that a friend tells him of. Uqbar, as it turns out, only exists in in an article found in only one copy of one edition of ''The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia'', and the article is mostly self-referential.

The report begins with an unnamed narrator, who becomes fascinated with the land of "Uqbar" that a friend tells him of. Uqbar, as it turns out, only exists in one copy of one edition of ''The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia'', and the article is mostly self-referential.

''Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'' is a 1940 MagicRealism short story by Creator/JorgeLuisBorges. Although it's only a few hundred words long and not a particularly easy read, it quickly became one of the most influential works of fiction of the 1940's.

* StarfishLanguage: The languages of Tlon have no nouns but only verbs or adjectives, reflecting the philosophy of its speakers (they see the world not as a set of objects with continuity in time, but a succession of events and transitory qualities).

--> Tlön is surely a labyrinth, but it is a labyrinth devised by men, a labyrinth destined to be deciphered by men.

''Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'' is a 1940 MagicRealism short story by JorgeLuisBorges. Although it's only a few hundred words long and not a particularly easy read, it quickly became one of the most influential works of fiction of the 1940's.

Slowly, however, more details on Uqbar start finding their way into the narrator's life. The purported nation seemingly once had an extensive mythology, based around the mythical land of Tlön. Tlön's philosophy and linguistics paint a fascinating picture of a holistic mysticism. Using the mindset of this mythical land, its inhabitants could allegedly find things simply by expecting to find them, regardless of whether or not these things existed previously. In the minds of these mythical Tlön people that the Uqbar culture spoke of, simply thinking, or writing, about objects and events could cause them to be real.

The narrator decides that both Uqbar and its stories of Tlön can only be inventions of a particularly creative author -- or rather, a group of natural scientists and philosophers who combined their knowledge to create such complicated WorldBuilding.

* AncientConspiracy

An addendum to the report, dated 1947, is repentant rather than speculative. [[spoiler: The narrator was right: the whole thing was made up by a 17th century secret society... with the goal of eventually writing Tlön into reality. They ''succeed''.]]

The narrator decides that both Uqbar and its stories of Tlön can only be inventions of a particularly creative author -- or rather, a group of natural scientists and philosophers who combined their knowledge to create such a complicated story.

Slowly, however, more details on Uqbar and its culture's mythology of the land of Tlön start finding its way into the narrator's life. Tlön's philosophy and linguistics paint a fascinating picture of a holistic mysticism. Using the mindset of this mythical land, its inhabitants could allegedly find things simply by expecting to find them, regardless of whether or not these things existed previously. In the minds of these mythical Tlön people, simply thinking, or writing, about objects and events could cause them to be real.

The narrator decides that both Uqbar and its mythology of Tlön can only be inventions of a particularly creative author -- or rather, a group of natural scientists and philosophers who combined their knowledge to create such a complicated story.

''Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'' is a 1940 MagicRealism short story by JorgeLuisBorges. Although it's only a few hundred words long and not a particularly easy read, it quickly became one of the most influention works of fiction of the 1940's.