Labyrinths : selected stories & other writings /
Language: English Original language: Spanish Series: New Directions paperbook ; 1066.Publisher: New York, New York : New Directions, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Description: xxiii, 256 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780811216999
- 0811216993
- Works. Selections. English. 2007
- PQ7797.B635 A2 2007
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"This volume was first published clothbound by New Directions in 1962; it was issued in an augmented edition as New Directions Paperbook 186 in 1964"--Title page verso.
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 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 -- Parables. Inferno, 1, 32 ; Paradiso, XXXI, 108 ; Ragnarök ; Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote ; The witness ; A problem ; Borges and I ; Everything and nothing -- Elegy -- Chronology.
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 figures in modern literature. Labyrinths is a representative selection of Borges' writing, drawn from books published over the years, with one of the most famous being the short story The Library of Babel, in which he imagines an infinite library filled with every book written, not yet written, and every combination of words and letters in between.