Labyrinths
Collection of short stories and essays. Many of the stories are from the collections Ficciones (1944) and El Aleph (1949). Edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby. Re-issue with introduction by William Gibson.
Contents:
- 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
Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated ”Library of Babel”.
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine writer, essayist, and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955 he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1961 he came to international attention when he received the first International Publishers' Prize, the Prix Formentor. His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages. He died in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1986.
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