% Borgesian Bibliography: On the Library and Its Commentators
% A mixture of the real, the apocryphal, and the impossible

@incollection{borges1941library,
  author = {Borges, Jorge Luis},
  title = {La biblioteca de Babel},
  booktitle = {El jard{\'i}n de senderos que se bifurcan},
  publisher = {Editorial Sur},
  year = {1941},
  address = {Buenos Aires},
  note = {First appearance of the infinite library}
}

@book{borges1944ficciones,
  author = {Borges, Jorge Luis},
  title = {Ficciones},
  publisher = {Editorial Sur},
  year = {1944},
  address = {Buenos Aires},
  note = {Contains both "The Library of Babel" and "Tl{\"o}n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"}
}

@article{kurd1933hexagonal,
  author = {Kurd Lasswitz},
  title = {{Die Universalbibliothek}},
  journal = {Traumkristalle},
  year = {1904},
  note = {German precursor describing a universal library of all possible books},
  address = {Leipzig}
}

@unpublished{menard1934quixote,
  author = {Pierre Menard},
  title = {El Quijote},
  year = {1934},
  note = {Fragment. Chapters IX and XXXVIII of Part One, and a fragment of Chapter XXII. Word-for-word identical to Cervantes yet infinitely richer}
}

@book{nemo1897catalogue,
  author = {Captain Nemo},
  title = {Catalogue of the Nautilus Library},
  publisher = {Submarine Press},
  year = {1897},
  address = {20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea},
  note = {12,000 volumes. No works published after 1865}
}

@article{funes1897memory,
  author = {Ireneo Funes},
  title = {Sistema original de numeraci{\'o}n},
  journal = {Unpublished manuscript, Fray Bentos},
  year = {1897},
  note = {Each number given a unique name. The author could recall every leaf on every tree he had ever seen}
}

@book{quain1936labyrinth,
  author = {Herbert Quain},
  title = {April March},
  publisher = {Siamese Press},
  year = {1936},
  address = {London},
  note = {A novel with thirteen chapters that must be read backwards. Nine possible endings}
}

@phdthesis{tzinacana1521jaguar,
  author = {Tzinac{\'a}n},
  title = {The Writing of the God},
  school = {Temple of Qaholom},
  year = {1521},
  note = {Fourteen words that make their speaker omnipotent. Written on the skin of a jaguar}
}

@misc{librarians1638first,
  author = {{The First Librarian of the Third Hexagon}},
  title = {On the Total Library},
  year = {1638},
  howpublished = {Oral tradition},
  note = {Asserted that the Library contains all books, including the faithful catalogue of the Library and the demonstration that this catalogue is false}
}

@article{soergel1638index,
  author = {Soergel, Johann Valentin},
  title = {{Index Librorum Omnium}},
  journal = {Hexagon Quarterly},
  year = {1638},
  volume = {MCCXIV},
  pages = {1--410},
  note = {Purported to be the index of all books. Later discovered to be the index of all indexes}
}

@book{ts1001nights,
  author = {{Scheherazade}},
  title = {The Thousand and One Nights: The Tale of the Infinite Manuscript},
  publisher = {Royal Palace of King Shahryar},
  year = {1001},
  note = {Contains a story about a story that contains all stories}
}

@book{eco1980name,
  author = {Eco, Umberto},
  title = {Il nome della rosa},
  publisher = {Bompiani},
  year = {1980},
  address = {Milano},
  note = {A library that kills to protect its secrets}
}

@article{calvino1979winter,
  author = {Calvino, Italo},
  title = {Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore},
  journal = {Einaudi},
  year = {1979},
  note = {A novel about trying to read a novel that keeps transforming into other novels}
}

@book{casares1940morel,
  author = {Bioy Casares, Adolfo},
  title = {La invenci{\'o}n de Morel},
  publisher = {Editorial Losada},
  year = {1940},
  address = {Buenos Aires},
  note = {Prologue by Borges. Machines that record and replay reality eternally}
}

@misc{babel2XXX,
  author = {{Anonymous Hexagon Dweller}},
  title = {MCV:LXXXIII:JTK:QRZL},
  howpublished = {Shelf 17, Row 3, Hexagon 41159131621},
  note = {One of the infinitely many books consisting entirely of the letters MCV repeated. Date of composition unknown---perhaps infinite}
}

@article{vindication1738,
  author = {{Anonymous}},
  title = {Vindication},
  journal = {Some hexagon},
  year = {1738},
  note = {A book containing the vindication of every person who has ever lived. Its location is unknown. Searchers have died looking for it}
}
