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Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

1970241 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1970
first published
  • 1970Penguin Books · 287 pages · ENGISBN 9780140180299
  • 1970New Directions Publishing Corporation · 241 pages · ENGISBN 9780811200127
  • 1983Modern Library · 251 pages · ENGISBN 9780394604497
  • 1987Penguin Books · 287 pages · ENGISBN 9780140093131
  • 2007New Directions · ENGISBN 9780811227230
  • 2007New Directions · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780811216999
  • 2019New Directions · ENGISBN 9780811229951
  • 2000Penguin Books Ltd · 288 pagesISBN 9780141184845

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 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

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