An edition of Labyrinths (1962)

Labyrinths

Selected Stories & Other Writings

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An edition of Labyrinths (1962)

Labyrinths

Selected Stories & Other Writings

Reissued
  • 4.12 ·
  • 34 Ratings
  • 190 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 35 Have read

The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinean 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. Writing that is multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive is now frequently labeled Borgesian. Umberto Eco's international bestseller, The Name of the Rose, is, on one level, an elaborate improvisation on Borges' ficciön "The Library of Babel," which American readers first encountered in the original 1962 New Directions publication of Labyrinths.

This revised edition of Labyrinths, a representative selection of Borges' writing edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (in translations by themselves and others, with new corrections), includes the text of the original edition (as augmented in 1964) as well as Irby's original biographical and critical introduction (with a new Postscript) and a chronology of the author's life. Borges enthusiast William Gibson has contributed a new preface bringing Borges' influence and importance into the twenty-first century.
--back cover

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Publisher
New Directions
Language
English
Pages
256

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First Sentence

"I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia."

Table of Contents

An Invitation by William Gibson
Introduction by James E. Irby
fictions
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
Essays
The Argentine Writer and Tradition
The Wal/ 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) Bemard Shaw
A New Refutation of Time
Parables
Infemo, 1, 32
Paradiso, xxxi, 108
Ragnarök
Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote
The Witness
A Problem
Borges and I
Everything and Nothing
Elegy
Chronology

Edition Notes

New Directions Paperbook
US/CAN

Copyright Date
2007

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
868/.6209
Library of Congress
PQ7797.B635 A2 2007

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxiii, 256p.
Number of pages
256
Dimensions
7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
Weight
9.6 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8000085M
Internet Archive
labyrinthsselect00borg_0
ISBN 10
0811216993
ISBN 13
9780811216999
LCCN
2006103181
OCLC/WorldCat
86115639, 1074481310, 1050951456
Library Thing
607
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0811216993
Google
wtPxGztYx-UC
Goodreads
57608232

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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