The Garden of Forking paths

The Garden of Forking Paths
In "The Garden of Forking Paths" Jorge Luis Borges accounts the desperate act of a German spy near the close of World War I. The protagonist, Dr. Yu Tsun, is a noted expert in labyrinths, and at the end of Borge's short story, he discovers the secret of his great grandfather's work The Garden of Forking Paths. In this sprawling web of symbols, which exists as both a book and a labyrinth, a maze of possible pasts, presents, amd futures coexist in an infinitely chaotic and complex manuscript. Borges constructs an elaborate discussion of time using the philosophy of labyrinths and gardens to demonstrate the essentially ficticious, yet inescapable nature of time. In "The Garden of Forking Paths," time is not uniform and Yu Tsun experiences time as depicted in Ts'ui Pen's novel, in which the world is neither uniform nor absolute, but a web that allows for an infinite amount of paths to be taken. Yu Tsun himself is navigating through this labyrinth, choo...