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Labyrinths

  • Jorge Luis Borges

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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

Genres

  • Anachronisms
  • speculative fiction
  • subjective idealism
  • duodecimals
  • aneurysms
  • adjectives
  • hermeticism
  • philanthropy
  • cabala
  • persecution
  • World War I
  • Abteilung IIIb
  • Chinese people
  • Irish Catholics
  • British Empire
  • Sinologists
  • revolvers
  • hanging
  • murder
  • capital punishment
  • Imperial German Air Service
  • lotteries
  • hexagons
  • permutations
  • languages
  • Latin
  • telegrams
  • Gaelic
  • Tetragrammaton
  • Hebrew calendar
  • equilateral triangle
  • rhombuses
  • Kabbalah
  • playwrights
  • World War II
  • Judaism
  • Anschluss
  • Illiad
  • Byzantine Army
  • embezzlement
  • defamation
  • queens
  • German nobility
  • Lutheranism
  • Christianity
  • Nazi Party
  • synagogues
  • Wermacht
  • German occupation of Czechoslovakia
  • concentration camps
  • Jews
  • cowards
  • compassion
  • Second Battle of El Alamein
  • crimes against humanity
  • execution by firing squad
  • early Islamic philosophy
  • Poetics
  • theatre
  • fixation
  • reality
  • pesos
  • train of thought
  • history
  • legends
  • free will
  • neighbourhoods
  • tigers
  • astrolabes
  • wells
  • marble
  • mosques
  • Aztecs
  • jaguars
  • Argentine literature
  • Fiction
  • Literary Collections
  • Literature
  • Literature Classics
  • Literature Texts
  • Manners and customs
  • Short Stories (single author)
  • Social life and customs
  • Spanish literature
  • Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Translations into English
  • Argentine Short stories
  • Argentina, fiction
  • Fiction, short stories (single author)
  • English literature
  • Translations from Spanish
  • Borges, jorge luis , 1899-1986
  • Pq7797.b635 a2 2007
  • 868/.6209
  • Public Finance
  • Money
  • Economic conditions
  • Social lfe and customs
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About the author

  • Jorge Luis Borges

    24 Aug 1899 - 14 Jun 1986

    4.15

    258 ratings · 808 works

Editions

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    reprint

    Penguin Books

    1987

  • Edition cover

    New Directions

    1962-01-01

  • Edition cover

    Augmented edition

    New Directions Pub. Corp

    1964

  • Edition cover

    New Directions

    2019

Edition cover

Augmented edition, tenth printing

New Directions Publishing Corporation

1970?

  • Edition cover

    Augmented edition, twelfth printing

    New Directions

    1970?

  • Edition cover

    Reissued

    New Directions

    2007

  • Edition cover

    Augmented edition

    New Directions

    1964

  • Edition cover

    Augmented edition, 7th printing

    New Directions

    1964

  • Edition cover

    Reissued

    New Directions

    2007

  • Edition cover

    Penguin Books Ltd

    September 28, 2000

  • Edition cover

    Augmented edition, 7th printing

    New Directions

    1964

  • Edition cover

    New Ed edition

    Penguin Books Ltd

    March 26, 1970

  • Edition cover

    Augmented edition, 7th printing

    New Directions

    1964

  • Edition cover

    1st edition

    New Directions

    1962

  • Edition cover

    Reissued

    New Directions

    2007

  • Edition cover

    1st Modern Library ed.

    Modern Library

    1983

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    printing (19)

    Penguin Books

    1970

  • Edition cover

    Augmented ed., eleventh printing

    New Directions Pub. Corp.

    1970?

  • Edition cover

    New Directions Publishing Corporation

    1962-01-01

  • Edition cover

    1st ed.

    New Directions

    1962

  • Edition cover

    Kastaniotis

    1986

  • Edition cover

    Penguin Books, Limited

    2011

  • Edition cover

    Penguin, Penguin Books Ltd

    1972

  • Edition cover

    Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag

    1962

  • Edition cover

    Penguin Books Ltd

    March 26, 1970