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Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: "Borges is a great writer who has composed only little essays or short narratives. Yet they suffice for us to call him great because of their wonderful intelligence, their wealth of invention, and their tight, almost mathematical style."
Labyrinths is a representative selection of Borges' writing, some forty pieces drawn from various of his books published over the years. The translations are by Harriet de Onis, Anthony Kerrigan, and others, including the editors, who have provided a biographical and critical introduction, as well as an extensive bibliography.
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Anachronisms, speculative fiction, subjective idealism, duodecimals, aneurysms, adjectives, hermeticism, philanthropy, cabala, persecution, World War I, Abteilung IIIb, Chinese people, Irish Catholics, British Empire, Sinologists, revolvers, hanging, murder, capital punishment, Imperial German Air Service, lotteries, hexagons, permutations, languages, Latin, telegrams, Gaelic, Tetragrammaton, Hebrew calendar, equilateral triangle, rhombuses, Kabbalah, playwrights, World War II, Judaism, Anschluss, Illiad, Byzantine Army, embezzlement, defamation, queens, German nobility, Lutheranism, Christianity, Nazi Party, synagogues, Wermacht, German occupation of Czechoslovakia, concentration camps, Jews, cowards, compassion, Second Battle of El Alamein, crimes against humanity, execution by firing squad, early Islamic philosophy, Poetics, theatre, fixation, reality, pesos, train of thought, history, legends, free will, neighbourhoods, tigers, astrolabes, wells, marble, mosques, Aztecs, jaguars, Argentine literature, Fiction, Literary Collections, Literature, Literature Classics, Literature Texts, Manners and customs, Short Stories (single author), Social life and customs, Spanish literature, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Translations into English, Argentine Short stories, Argentina, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), English literature, Translations from Spanish, Borges, jorge luis , 1899-1986, Pq7797.b635 a2 2007, 868/.6209, Public Finance, Money, Economic conditionsPeople
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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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