Borges

The style of writing author Borges uses in his short stories appeals to me because it is unlike any other author I have been exposed to.  His writing is interesting in the aspect of using parallel universes.  For instance, in the story "The Garden of Forking Paths," the two lives of Albert and the spy showed me how there were two realities existing at one time.  The spy had info about what location needed to be bombed and that needed to be communicated to the Germans who were doing the bombings.  In another life, Albert was the man that was killed for no reason other than his name because it was the same as the place the Germans needed to bomb.  Coincidently the two men were connected through Ts’ui P’en who wrote a book called a labyrinth.  No one was able to understand it except for Albert.  “ In all fictional works, each time a man is confronted with several alternatives, he chooses one and eliminates the others; in the fiction of Ts’ui P’en, he chooses simultaneously all of them,  He creates, in this way, diverse futures, diverse times which themselves also proliferate and fork.”  This story did an excellent job of showing coincidence and the power of parallel universes.