Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Answer 1

Infinite storytelling is the the main central theme.

Answer 2

The answers are: non-linear time and infinite storytelling.

Borges, the Argentinian writers explored in great detail the intricacies of storytelling, mostly through short stories, most notably in The garden of forking paths. Like the excerpt shows, the narrator explores the possibility of a form of time that is not linear, running from past to future, but rather a form of time that is cyclical, like many philosophers would have it (like Nietzsche): If time is cyclical, storytelling can be the best device to explore this form of time that could be related over and over again, always the same, but with each repetition adding layers of depth to this form of time that could, in principle, absorb infinite possibilities and all story lines.