Drawing Borges: A Two-Part Invention on the Labyrinths of Jorge Luis Borges and M.C. Escher

Many parallels may be observed between the literary art of Jorge Luis Borges and the visual art of M.C. Escher. The fantastic worlds found in Escher's art provide visual analogies to the fantastic worlds chronicled by Borges in many ways. Four stories (ficciones) by Borges are discussed here—"The Circular Ruins," "The Secret Miracle," "The Library of Babel," and "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"—in contrapuntal harmony with selected Escher prints.