An edition of Labyrinths (1962)

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An edition of Labyrinths (1962)

Labyrinths

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

The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labeled Borgesian. Umberto Eco’s international bestseller, The Name of the Rose, is, on one level, an elaborate improvisation on Borges’ fiction “The Library,” which American readers first encountered in the original 1962 New Directions publication of Labyrinths. This new edition of Labyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges’ writing edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (in translations by themselves and others), includes the text of the original edition (as augmented in 1964) as well as Irby’s biographical and critical essay, a poignant tribute by Andre Maurois, and a chronology of the author’s life. Borges enthusiast William Gibson has contributed a new introduction bringing Borges’ influence and importance into the twenty-first century.

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Labyrinths
2019, New Directions
Digital Audio in English
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
2007, New Directions
Paperback in English - Reissued
Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
2007, New Directions
Paperback in English - Reissued
Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths
1987, Penguin Books
paperback in English - reprint
Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
1970?, New Directions
Paperback in English - Augmented edition, twelfth printing
Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: selected stories and other writings
1970, Penguin Books
Paperback in English - printing (19)
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Labyrinths: Short Stories & Other Writings
1964, New Directions
Library Binding in English - Augmented edition
Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: Selected stories & other writings
1964, New Directions Pub. Corp
hardcover in English - Augmented edition
Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
1964, New Directions
Paperback in English - Augmented edition, 7th printing
Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: selected stories & other writings
1964, New Directions
paperback in English - Augmented edition, 7th printing
Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: selected stories & other writings
1964, New Directions
Paperback in English - Augmented edition, 7th printing

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OL47068047M
ISBN 10
0811229955
ISBN 13
9780811229951
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Work Description

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

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