The book is neither a justification nor an excessive praise of Borges, but only indicates the author's exposure to magical realism. "Karl van den Voort - Self-Taught Writer" tells the story of a fictional character - a writer who is quite far from the literary mainstream, whose works remain invisible to a wide audience. The essay “Deep Thought Lying on the Surface” provides an interpretation of the idea underlying the story by H.L. Borges "Aleph".