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Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986)
An Argentinian author, essayist, and poet, many of whose short stories explore paradoxes and other strange avenues of mathematics, logic, philosophy, and time. For example, the possibility of branches in time is dealt with in "The Garden of Forking Paths," while the strange notion of the Universal Library is the subject of "The Library of Babel." Borges was profoundly influenced by European culture, English literature, and such thinkers as George Berkeley.
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