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Labyrinths : selected stories & other writings / Jorge Louis Borges ; edited by Donald A. Yates & James E. Irby ; with an invitation by William Gibson.

by Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.

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New York, NY : New Directions, 2007.

Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Translations into English.

Argentina -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006103181.html

9780811216999 (alk. paper) :

0811216993 (alk. paper)

xxiii, 256 pages ; 21 cm.

Fictions. 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 -- 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 -- Parables. Inferno, 1, 32 ; Paradiso, XXXI, 108 ; Ragnarök ; Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote ; The witness ; A problem ; Borges and I ; Everything and nothing -- Elegy -- Chronology.

Presented here are stories that are redolent with intelligence, a wealth of invention, and a tight, almost mathematically formal style that challenges with mysteries and paradoxes revealed only slowly after several readings.

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