Labyrinths
Subtitle: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Edition: Augmented edition, twelfth printing
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1970?
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780811200127
Copyright date: 1964
Description: 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.

~from the back cover
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Futions; title: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius; title: The Garden of Forking Paths; title: The Lottery in Babylon; title: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote; title: Tbe Circular Ruins; title: Tbe 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: Tbe Argentine Writer and Tradition; title: T be Wall 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 (touard) Bernard Shau; title: A Neu Refutation of Time; title: Parables; title: Inferno, I, 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; title: Bibliography