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The Circular Ruins

1940 short story by Jorge Luis Borges
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Key Facts

  • Author: Jorge Luis Borges[1]
  • Genre: fantasy[2]
  • Language of work or name: Spanish[3]
  • Country of origin: Argentina[4]
  • Published in: The Garden of Forking Paths[5]
  • Title: Las ruinas circulares[6]
  • First line: Nadie lo vio desembarcar en la unánime noche, nadie vio la canoa de bambú sumiéndose en el fango sagrado, pero a los pocos días nadie ignoraba que el hombre taciturno venía del Sur y que su patria era una de las infinitas aldeas que están aguas arriba, en el flanco violento de la montaña, donde el idioma zend no está contaminado de griego y donde es infrecuente la lepra.[7]
  • Last line: Con alivio, con humillación, con terror, comprendió que él también era una apariencia, que otro estaba soñándolo.[8]
  • Form of creative work: short story[9]

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Argentina Jorge Luis Borges literary work

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  1. 25w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → literary work
    Country of origin → Argentina
    Language of work or name → Spanish
    Genre → fantasy
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