This is fascinating. Unmentioned, after commenting that Borges reviewed Dunne's work in 1940, however, is that the permanence of objects in time relates themat

This is fascinating. Unmentioned, after commenting that Borges reviewed Dunne's work in 1940, however, is that the permanence of objects in time relates thematically to Jorge Luis Borges' own writing, recalling in particular The Garden of Forking Paths [1941]. I couldn't prove a causal connection, but it seems to cast a a commentary on Borges' post-1940 short stories. Nabokov also played with the idea of reverie or dream-like states of consciousness. I've only had the pleasure to have read Pale Fire this far, but there is a careful blending of rational thought, creative (meta-)fiction, "dream logic" and actual insanity. In it, untangling what's real and and what's not left me with much the same sensation as trying to figure out whether something once happened to me years before or I just had a vivid dream.