The Garden of Forking Paths
In England in 1916 a Chinese professor spying for Germany learns he has been found out, and has one afternoon to get a single word to Berlin. He takes a train to the house of a sinologist who happens to have spent years on the papers of the professor's ancestor, a governor who quit office to write an unfinished novel and build a labyrinth nobody ever found. The story that handed fiction the branching universe as a form.
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Lineage
- alludes to ↑ One Thousand and One Nights
- ↓ If on a winter's night a traveller
- ↓ 2666
Attributes
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Plot structure
Emotional arc (story shape)
Quest object (Greimas)
Symbol / motif
Conflict
Culture / tradition
Closest analogues
- 46% · 8 shared
- 45% · 10 shared
- 43% · 8 shared
- 41% · 7 shared
- 39% · 9 shared
- 38% · 7 shared