Round 6: Tossup 20

The speaker of a story from this country presses his face to the glass of an aquarium to see animals he claims “abolish space and time.”A “counter-novel” from this country includes instructions on how to read its 155 chapters out of order. In a story from this country, (15[1])Yu Tsun travels to Ashbrook to meet with the Sinologist (15[1])Stephen Albert, an author studying a novel whose chapters create different futures. (15[1])Julio (*) Cortazar was from this country, as was an author whose Ficciones includes a story (10[1])in which people explore a series of hexagonal rooms (10[1])filled with books. For 10 points, name this home of the author of “The Garden of Forking Paths,” Jorge Luis (10[1])Borges. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Argentina [or Argentine Republic or República Argentina] (The first line is “Axolotl.” The second line is Hopscotch.)
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