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Labyrinths

Selected Stories & Other Writings

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An edition of Labyrinths (1962)

Labyrinths

Selected Stories & Other Writings

Reissued
  • 4.10 ·
  • 40 Ratings
  • 200 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 39 Have read

Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays by the writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett.

It includes, among other stories, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Garden of Forking Paths", and "The Library of Babel", three of Borges' most famous stories.

Stories
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
The Garden of Forking Paths
The Lottery in Babylon
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
The Circular Ruins
The Library of Babel
Funes the Memorious
The Shape of the Sword
Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
Death and the Compass
The Secret Miracle
Three Versions of Judas
The Sect of the Phoenix
The Immortal
The Theologians
Story of the Warrior and the Captive
Emma Zunz
The House of Asterion
Deutsches Requiem
Averroes' Search
The Zahir
The Waiting
The God's Script
Stories 1-13 are from Ficciones; 14-23 are from The Aleph.

Essays
The Argentine Writer and Tradition
The Wall and the Books
The Fearful Sphere of Pascal
Partial Magic in the Quixote
Valéry as Symbol
Kafka and His Precursors
Avatars of the Tortoise
The Mirror of Enigmas
A Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw
A New Refutation of Time
All essays are from Otras inquisiciones, except The Argentine Writer and Tradition and Avatars of the Tortoise which are from Discusión

Parables
Inferno, I, 32
Paradiso, XXXI, 108
Ragnarök
Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote
The Witness
A Problem
Borges and I
Everything and Nothing
All parables are from The Maker

Publish Date
Publisher
New Directions
Language
English

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2007, New Directions
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2007, New Directions
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Labyrinths: selected stories & other writings
1964, New Directions
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Labyrinths: selected stories & other writings
1964, New Directions
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Table of Contents

Invitation / William Gibson --
Introduction / James E Irby --
Fictions: --
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius --
Garden of forking paths --
Lottery in Babylon --
Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote --
Circular ruins --
Library of Babel --
Funes the Memorious --
Shape of the sword --
Theme of the traitor and the hero --
Death and the compass --
Secret miracle --
Three versions of Judas --
Sect of the Phoenix --
Immortal --
Theologians --
Story of the warrior and the captive --
Emma Zunz --
House of Asterion --
Deutsches Requiem --
Averroes' search --
Zahir --
Waiting --
God's script --
Essays: --
Argentine writer and tradition --
Wall and the books --
Fearful sphere of Pascal --
Partial magic in the Quixote --
Valery as symbol --
Kafka and his precursors --
Avatars of the tortoise --
Mirror of enigmas --
Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw --
New refutation of time --
Parables: --
Inferno, 1, 32 --
Paradiso, XXXI, 108 --
Ragnarok --
Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote --
Witness --
Problem --
Borges and I --
Everything and nothing --
Elegy --
Chronology.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
2007
Translated From
Spanish

Contributors

Introduction
William Gibson

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Format
Electronic resource

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32036411M
ISBN 10
0811227235
ISBN 13
9780811227230
OCLC/WorldCat
979544369
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B06XPV8F3Z
Google
bGliDgAAQBAJ
Goodreads
34611017

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