The Circular Ruins

“The Circular Ruins” by Jorge Luis Borges

A wizard comes to the circular ruins to dream a man into existence. Fire agrees to animate the dreamed son, but requires that he be sent to tend another ruined temple. In the end, the wizard learns that he too is but a dream creation.

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(English) Borges, Jorge Luis. "The Circular Ruins." Collected Fictions. Viking, 1998.