Borges was interested in framing his fiction in ways that subverted reader expectation. To this end, one story might pretend to be a literary essay ("Pierre Manard, Author of the Quixote") while another might be introduced as an ancient manuscript of a lost civilization that Borges had merely found and edited ("The Lottery in Babylon"). | Borges was interested in framing his fiction in ways that subverted reader expectation. To this end, one story might pretend to be a literary essay ("Pierre Manard, Author of the Quixote") while another might be introduced as an ancient manuscript of a lost civilization that Borges had merely found and edited ("The Lottery in Babylon"). |