It’s Borges, the other one, that things happen to. I walk though Buenos Aries and I pause – mechanically now, perhaps – to gaze at the arch of an entryway and its inner door; news of Borges reaches me by mail, or I see his name on a list of academics…My tastes runs to hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typefaces, etymologies…Borges shares these preferences (Borges 1)
The story begins with a statement about Borges and a description of the main’s character’s action. Due to this, the narrative establishes the device of introducing multiple worlds as more than a gimmick since it is based around concrete information. The information only expands out when both a character descriptor and an image about Borges has …show more content…
According to Abbot, “narrative worlds replicate the actual world we live in. Every day we hope, dream, fear, urge, hypothesize, fantasize and in many ways create worlds that don’t come into being” (Abbot 167). The main character thrives off of the idea of a possible world and instead reflects on the past. The entire narrative is the main character’s attempt to understand their place in the world while in an opposed positon to Borges. Without the embedded narrative, there would be no knowledge about the main character’s