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"An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain" (original Spanish title: "Examen de la obra de Herbert Quain") is a 1941 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was included in the anthology ''Ficciones'', part one (''The Garden of Forking Paths''). The title has also been translated as ''A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain''. ==Plot summary== "An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain" is a fictional essay surveying the following works, written by fictional deceased Irish author Herbert Quain: *''The God of the Labyrinth'' (1933), a detective story in which the solution given is wrong, although this fact is not immediately obvious *''April March'' (1936), a novel with nine different beginnings, trifurcating backwards in time *''The Secret Mirror'', a play in which the first act is the work of one of the characters in the second act (à la ''The Waltz Invention'') *''Statements'' (1939), eight stories which are deliberately calculated to disappoint the reader; ''The Circular Ruins'' is supposedly an extract from the third story, "The Rose of Yesterday" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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