The Circular Ruins
The short story begins with describing a wounded man who decided to take a rest at an old and abandoned temple. He falls sleeps and dreams about a man being in the center of an amphitheater that resembles the ruined temple and giving a lecture to a group of quiet students. Labyrinth is depicted in the story through the interchanging scenes between reality and dream. The subject changes in between an unknown man and the narrator, there is no sense of time, and the perspective switches throughout the story. Sometimes it sounds as if the unknown man and the narrator are the same person and sometimes it sounds like there is a dream within a dream. These factors all create confusion and the idea of a labyrinth.
The Library of Babel
Taking a different approach to depict labyrinth compared to "The Circular Ruins", "The Library of Babel" describes the structure of a labyrinth. Borges describes the universe in the form of a library that is composed of an indefinite amount of identical hexagonal rooms that contains and infinite amount of books.
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