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An edition of Labyrinths (1962)

Labyrinths

reprint
  • 4.14 ·
  • 35 Ratings
  • 193 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 36 Have read

'The stories, essays and poems written by Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina suffice for us to call him great', as André Maurois writes in his preface, because of their wonderful intelligence, their wealth of invention and their tight, almost mathematical style.

The twenty-three stories in Labyrinths include Borges's classic 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius', a new world where external objects are whatever each person wants; and 'Pierre Menard', the story of the man who rewrote parts of Don Quixote for the twentieth century in Cervantes's words.

The ten essays reflect the extraordinary scope of Borges's reading – the ancient literatures of Greece and China, the medieval philosophers, Pascal, Shakespeare, Valéry, Shaw and Wells – while the seven parables are unforgettable exercises in the art of astonishment.

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Penguin Books
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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
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Labyrinths
1987, Penguin Books
paperback in English - reprint
Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: selected stories and other writings
1970, Penguin Books
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Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
1970?, New Directions
Paperback in English - Augmented edition, twelfth 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
Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: Selected stories & other writings
1964, New Directions Pub. Corp
hardcover in English - Augmented edition
Cover of: Labyrinths
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
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1964

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paperback
Pagination
287p.
Number of pages
287

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OL46856373M
Internet Archive
borgesjorgeluisl0000jorg
ISBN 10
0140093133
ISBN 13
9780140093131
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2762921

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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