On the Infinite, Universe and Worlds

Written in London, in dialogue form: the universe has no edge, no centre, and no privileged world — the stars are suns, and the worlds are innumerable. This is the book the one-world doctrine could not forgive.

The ancestor of every plurality in this corpus: Borges's forking paths, Wilson's parallel novels, the whole instinct that no single model gets to be the universe. Bruno shows what the position cost before it was a literary device — he is the martyr of model absolutism's refusal.