Publication

1964 - New Directions Pub. Corp, New York

Language

English

Word Count

65,000 words, Guess

Page Count

260 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPQ7797.B635 L3 1964

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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W) 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

Subjects

Topics

JewsMoneyLatinwellspesosmurderAztecs

Places

LundTlönIndiaEgyptUqbarAfricaLondon

People

GodRyanPlatoNazisJudasArgosNolan

Times

1887194018841947190819421872

Other Editions

  • Labyrinths: Selected stories & other writingsHardcoverNew Directions Pub. Corp1964-01-01
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