[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-seo-437155-105":3,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":81,"doc-detail-437155-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"ok",{"site_id":7,"language":8,"slug":9,"title":10,"keywords":11,"description":12,"schema_data":13,"social_meta":74,"head_meta":76,"extra_data":78,"updated_unix":80},105,"en","the-garden-of-forking-paths","The Garden of Forking Paths","","A literary work presented in an English translation of Jorge Luis Borges, centered on the narrator Yu Tsun and the intricate circumstances surrounding Captain Richard Madden and the Prussian spy Viktor Runeberg. The text opens with historical framing about an operation postponed due to rain, then pivots to a sworn statement that reinterprets the event. It follows Yu Tsun’s urgent flight, his recollection-driven psychological turmoil, and his attempt to transmit a hidden secret before impending death.",{"@graph":14,"@context":73},[15,34,56],{"@type":16,"itemListElement":17},"BreadcrumbList",[18,23,27,31],{"item":19,"name":20,"@type":21,"position":22},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",1,{"item":24,"name":25,"@type":21,"position":26},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":28,"name":29,"@type":21,"position":30},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/","Literature",3,{"item":32,"name":10,"@type":21,"position":33},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/the-garden-of-forking-paths/437155/",4,{"url":32,"name":10,"@type":35,"image":36,"author":41,"headline":10,"publisher":44,"fileFormat":47,"inLanguage":8,"description":12,"dateModified":48,"datePublished":49,"encodingFormat":47,"isAccessibleForFree":50,"interactionStatistic":51},"DigitalDocument",{"url":37,"@type":38,"width":39,"height":40},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/the-garden-of-forking-paths/437155.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":42,"@type":43},"LangkahRina","Person",{"url":19,"name":45,"@type":46},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-31","2026-09-29",true,{"@type":52,"interactionType":53,"userInteractionCount":55},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":54},"ViewAction",7,{"@type":57,"mainEntity":58},"FAQPage",[59,65,69],{"name":60,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":62},"Who is Yu Tsun in the story?","Question",{"text":63,"@type":64},"Yu Tsun is the former professor of English at the Hoch-schule at Tsingtao who dictates a sworn statement and becomes entangled in the events involving Runeberg and Madden.","Answer",{"name":66,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":67},"What key information does Yu Tsun possess?",{"text":68,"@type":64},"Yu Tsun holds a secret concerning the exact location of a new British artillery park on the River Ancre, which he tries to communicate before it is too late.",{"name":70,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":71},"Why does Yu Tsun plan to contact the Chief?",{"text":72,"@type":64},"He recognizes that the transmission of the secret is urgent, and he seeks a way to make his message reach the Chief despite his fear and the presence of imminent danger.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":32,"og:type":75,"og:title":10,"og:site_name":45,"og:description":12},"article",{"robots":77,"canonical":32},"index,follow",{"doc_id":79,"site_id":7},437155,1791010295,{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":83},"success",[84,88,91,95,100,105,109,114,119,122,126],{"id":22,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":85,"show_sort_weight":86,"slug":87},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":26,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":29,"show_sort_weight":89,"slug":90},80,"literature",{"id":33,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":92,"show_sort_weight":93,"slug":94},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":96,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":97,"show_sort_weight":98,"slug":99},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":101,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":102,"show_sort_weight":103,"slug":104},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":55,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":106,"show_sort_weight":107,"slug":108},"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":110,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":111,"show_sort_weight":112,"slug":113},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":115,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":116,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":118},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":117,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":121},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":123,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":124,"show_sort_weight":123,"slug":125},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":127,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":128,"show_sort_weight":96,"slug":129},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":131},{"doc_id":79,"user_id":132,"nickname":42,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":26,"category_name":29,"doc_title":10,"doc_description":12,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":55,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":22,"is_downloadable":22,"audit_status":22,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":8,"site_id":7,"html_lang":8,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":12,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145},962090893776,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d","JORGE LUISBORGES  \nHE GARDENOF FORKINGPATHS  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/gardenofforkingp0000borg  \nSUMMERWASDRAWINGTOACLOSE.4NDIREAZEHATHE  \nBQKWASMONSTROUS.  \nPENGUIN CLASSICS  \nUK|USA |Canada |Ireland |AustraliaIndia |New Zealand |South Africa  \nPenguin Books is part of the Penguin Random House groupof companies whose addresses can be found atglobal.penguinrandomhouse.com.  \nPenguin  \nRandom HouseUK  \nThis selection first published 20180OI  \nCopyright ◎Maria Kodama,I998  \nThe Garden of Forking Paths',\"The Circular Ruins'and Death andthe Compass',translation copyright New Directions PublishingCorporation,I962,I964  \n\"The Book of Sand and'On Exactitude in Science',translationcopyright CPenguin Putnam Inc.,I998  \nThe moral rights of the author and translators have been assertedAll rights reserved  \nSet in II.2/I3.75 pt Dante MT StdTypeset by Jouve(UK),Milton KeynesPrinted in Great Britain by Clays Ltd,St Ives plc  \nISBN:978-0-24I-33905-3  \nwwwgreenpenguin.co.uk  \nPenguin Random House is comnited to asustainable future for our business,our readersand our planet.This book is made from ForestStewardship Council\"certihed paper.  \nContents  \nThe Garden of Forking PathsIThe Book of SandI8The Circular Ruins26On Exactitude in Science35Death and the Compass36  \nThe Garden of Forking Paths  \nOn page 252 of Liddell Hart's History of World War Iyouwill read that an attack against the Serre-Montauban lineby thirteen British divisions(supported by I,400 artillerypieces),planned for 24 July I9I6,had to be postponeduntil the morning of the 29th.The torrential rains,Cap-tain Liddell Hart comments,caused this delay,aninsignificant one,to be sure.  \nThe following statement,dictated,reread and signedby Dr Yu Tsun,former professor of English at the Hoch-schule at Tsingtao,throws an unsuspected light over thewhole affair.The first two pages of the document aremissing.  \n...and I hung up the receiver.Immediately after-wards,I recognized the voice that had answered inGerman.It was that of Captain Richard Madden.Mad-den's presence in Viktor Runeberg’s apartment meantthe end of our anxieties and-but this seemed,or shouldhave seemed,very secondary to me-also the end of ourlives.It meant that Runeberg had been arrested or  \nJorge Luis Borges  \nmurdered.Before the sun set on that day,I wouldencounter the same fate.Madden was implacable.Orrather,he was obliged to be so.An Irishman at the ser-vice of England,a man accused of laxity and perhaps oftreason,how could he fail to seize and be thankful forsuch a miraculous opportunity:the discovery,capture,maybe even the death of two agents of the GermanEmpire?I went up to my room:absurdly I locked thedoor and threw myself on my back on the narrow ironcot.Through the window I saw the familiar roofs andthe cloud-shaded six o'clock sun.It seemed incredible tome that that day without premonitions or symbolsshould be the one of my inexorable death.In spite of mydead father,in spite of having been a child in a symmet-rical garden of Hai Feng,was I-now-going to die?Then I reflected that everything happens to a man pre-cisely,precisely now.Centuries of centuries and only inthe present do things happen;countless men in the air,on the face of the earth and the sea,and all that reallyis happening is happening to me ...The almost  \n1.Anhypothesis both hatefuland odd.The Prussian spy HansRabener,alias Viktor Runeberg,attacked with drawn auto-matic the bearer of the warrant for his arrest,Captain RichardMadden.The latter,in self-defence,inflicted the wound whichbrought about Runeberg's death.(Editor's note.)  \nThe Garden of Forking Paths  \nintolerable recollection of Madden's horselike face ban-ished these wanderings.In the midst of my hatred andterror (it means nothing to me now to speak of terror,now that I have foiled Richard Madden,now thatmy throat yearns for the noose)it occurred to me thatthat tumultuous and doubtless happy warrior did ","cbCairAI7SrcFp7I","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairAI7SrcFp7I","pdf",2182143,66,"English","# Contents\n## The Garden of Forking Paths\n## The Book of Sand\n## The Circular Ruins\n## On Exactitude in Science\n## Death and the Compass","[{\"question\":\"Who is Yu Tsun in the story?\",\"answer\":\"Yu Tsun is the former professor of English at the Hoch-schule at Tsingtao who dictates a sworn statement and becomes entangled in the events involving Runeberg and Madden.\"},{\"question\":\"What key information does Yu Tsun possess?\",\"answer\":\"Yu Tsun holds a secret concerning the exact location of a new British artillery park on the River Ancre, which he tries to communicate before it is too late.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Yu Tsun plan to contact the Chief?\",\"answer\":\"He recognizes that the transmission of the secret is urgent, and he seeks a way to make his message reach the Chief despite his fear and the presence of imminent danger.\"}]","The Garden of Forking Paths | PDF",1790680439,102]