Everyone always mentions "The Library of Babel"; considerably fewer bring up the work that inspired it, "The Universal Library" (Die Universalbibliothek) by Kur

Everyone always mentions "The Library of Babel"; considerably fewer bring up the work that inspired it, "The Universal Library" (Die Universalbibliothek) by Kurd Lasswitz [1], which places its treatment of a library containing every possible book of a given length in a somewhat different context. [1] https://mithilareview.com/lasswitz_09_17/ https://mithilareview.com/lasswitz_09_17/