"El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan"
by Jorge Luis Borges
Original Sources
The texts produced here are based on transcriptions created by Ricardo Vázquez and Christopher D. Warnes. For more information about each version, see List of Versions.
List of Versions
- MS: Michigan St.: A manuscript version of the story housed at Michigan State University,
Donald Yates collection on Jorge Luis Borges, 1950-1990. MSS 678-01.
- MS: Bloomsbury: A manuscript version of the story written in an accounting ledger.
Images of this manuscript appeared in a catalogue of Bloomsbury Auctions titled Travel, Literature, Autographs and Fine Books in 2010.
An image of the first page of the same manuscript also appeared in Lame Duck Books, Catalogue No. Eighty Something (2004), p. 42;
and in Lame Duck Books, Latin American Spanish and Portuguese Literature: Catalogue 88 (2012), p. 74.
- P 1941: The version of the story published by Sur in the book El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan (1941).
- P 1944: The version of the story published by Sur in the book Ficciones (1944).
Electronic Edition Information:
Responsibility Statement:
- Transcription and Digitization by Ricardo Vázquez and Christopher D. Warnes
Key
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- Green = Text inserted, but not as an alternative to something else.
Strikethrough = The text is crossed out.
- Line numbers down the left hand side refer to paragraph and sentence numbers respectively. For example, "6.8" refers to paragraph 6, sentence 8.