... amongst the writings of Borges is the idea of reality in the imagined and unreality in the real world, and that there is nothing truer than the dream even the dreamer who is dreaming it. In Las ruinas circulares he confronts this idea head on, and although this story has no basis in reality and ... be sure of the certainty of reality when the protagonist, a sorcerer, who spends the majority of the tale conjuring a son from a dream, himself realises that he is but the dream in the mind of another. With this Borges is saying that we exist in the mind of God in the same way that characters ...

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