Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other WritingsThe groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian 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. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labeled Borgesian. Umberto Eco's international bestseller, The Name of the Rose, is, on one level, an elaborate improvisation on Borges' fiction "The Library," which American readers first encountered in the original 1962 New Directions publication of Labyrinths. This new edition of Labyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges' writing edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (in translations by themselves and others), includes the text of the original edition (as augmented in 1964) as well as Irby's biographical and critical essay, a poignant tribute by André Maurois, and a chronology of the author's life. Borges enthusiast William Gibson has contributed a new introduction bringing Borges' influence and importance into the twenty-first century. |
Contents
Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius | 3 |
The Garden of Forking Paths | 19 |
Pierre Menard Author of the Quixote | 36 |
The Library of Babel | 51 |
The Shape of the Sword | 67 |
The Secret Miracle | 88 |
The Sect of the Phoenix | 101 |
The Theologians | 119 |
Averroes Search | 148 |
The Zahir | 156 |
The Gods Script | 169 |
The Wall and the Books | 186 |
Kafka and His Precursors | 199 |
A Note on toward Bernard Shaw | 213 |
Inferno 1 32 | 237 |
Elegy | 251 |
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