Borgesianadj.
/bɔːˈɡɛzɪən/, /bɔːˈɡiːzɪən/, /bɔːˈxɛzɪən/, U.S. /ˌbɔrˈɡɛziən/, /ˌbɔrˈɡeɪziən/, /ˌbɔrˈhɛziən/ Characteristic or reminiscent of the work of Borges, esp. of the intricate, labyrinthine nature of his fictional worlds.
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1965 Hispania 48 186/2 Dreamtigers is a collection of short pieces representative of various Borgesian moods.
1984 C. Owens in B. Wallis Art after Modernism iv. 227 As Jacques Derrida, in his Borgesian critique of this passage indicates: ‘The gallery is the labyrinth which includes in itself its own exit.’
1991 M. Benedikt Cyberspace (1993) i. 2 Billowing, glittering, humming, coursing, a Borgesian library, a city; intimate, immense, firm, liquid, recognizable and unrecognizable at once.
2004 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 143/1 A store, considering the Borgesian nature of my quest, appropriately called Labyrinth.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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