Labyrinths
Subtitle: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Contributors: Andre Maurois (Foreword); Donald A. Yates (Editor); James E. Irby (Editor); Willian Gibson (Introduction)
Edition: Reissued
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780811216999
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Literary Collections; Fiction - General; Literature: Classics; Short Stories (single author); Literary Collections / General; American - General; 1899-1986; Borges, Jorge Luis,; Translations into English
First sentence: I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
Description: 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.
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Table of contents: title: An Invitation by William Gibson; title: Introduction by James E. Irby; title: fictions; title: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius; title: The Garden of Forking Paths; title: The Lottery in Babylon; title: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote; title: The Circular Ruins; title: The Library of Babel; title: Funes the Memorious; title: The Shape of the Sword; title: Theme of the Traitor and the Hero; title: Death and the Compass; title: The Secret Miracle; title: Three Versions of Judas; title: The Sect of the Phoenix; title: The Immortal; title: The Theologians; title: Story of the Warrior and the Captive; title: Emma Zunz; title: The House of Asterion; title: Deutsches Requiem; title: Averroes' Search; title: The Zahir; title: The Waiting; title: The God's Script; title: Essays; title: The Argentine Writer and Tradition; title: The Wal/ and the Books; title: The Fearful Sphere of Pascal; title: Partial Magic in the Quixote; title: Valéry as Symbol; title: Kafka and His Precursors; title: Avatars of the Tortoise; title: The Mirror of Enigmas; title: A Note on (toward) Bemard Shaw; title: A New Refutation of Time; title: Parables; title: Infemo, 1, 32; title: Paradiso, xxxi, 108; title: Ragnarök; title: Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote; title: The Witness; title: A Problem; title: Borges and I; title: Everything and Nothing; title: Elegy; title: Chronology