Ficciones
The Library of Babel, the forking paths: labyrinthine stories that anticipated postmodernism
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- Author
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Century
- 20th century
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Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 1931 The Persistence of Memory — Salvador Dalí · Surrealism · Portlligat, Catalonia
- 1959–1973 Sydney Opera House — Jørn Utzon · Modern architecture (International Style) · Sydney
- 1928–1930 Chrysler Building — William Van Alen · Art Deco · New York
- 1928–1931 Villa Savoye — Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret · Modern architecture (International Style) · Poissy, near Paris
- 1962 Campbell's Soup Cans — Andy Warhol · Pop art · New York
- 1922–1931 Christ the Redeemer — Paul Landowski, Heitor da Silva Costa · Art Deco · Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro
- 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez · Mexico City
- 1915 Black Square — Kazimir Malevich · Russian avant-garde · Moscow
What was happening in the world
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union
- 1933 Hitler comes to power
- 1936–1938 Great Purge
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War
- 1939–1945 World War II