What would you find when clicking on the hypertext?”The Garden of the Forking Paths”
Write a narrative essay that would be linked to the imagined hypertext in the quote below. Write the essay with Ts’ui Pen as the author, using the first person. You can be as inventive as you like, as long as it makes sense within the context of the story. Use what you know about Ts’ui Pen and what you know about the statements Borges has made about the role of the writer and the reader in shaping a story.Here is the quote: “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 Pen, he chooses–simultaneously–all of them. He creates in this way, diverse futures, diverse times which themselves also proliferate and fork. [245]”Here is some information that will help you write the essay:-Narrative Structure; A narrative essay tells a story and uses the same elements as other traditional stories: a beginning, a middle, and an end. However, “The Garden of the Forking Paths” does not seem to be structured that way. Think about how Borges structured this story, and how the structure affects your interpretation of events as you learn of them. Borges’ views about writers and their craft parallels his own work: it is at once murky and universal. In the preface to his book, Fervor of Buenos Aires [Fervor de Buenos Aires], Borges wrote: …”it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author.” (“To the Reader” [“A quien leyere”], 1923) How is this concept reflected in “The Garden of the Forking Paths”?-Perspectives/Point of View;Although Dr. Albert is a scholar, what if his view of Ts’ui Pen’s story is wrong? What if he discovered that the manuscript had not been burned? How might that shed a different light on the way Albert views his story? Or, what if Albert was betraying the trust given him by Yu Tsun during their conversations?-Directions; Although hyperlinks did not exist during Borges’ time, imagine how he might have used them to make connections to different elements in his story. The following quote from “The Garden of the Forking Paths” now contains an imagined hyperlink. What would you find when clicking on the hypertext?
