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Labyrinths

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Author
  
Jorge Luis Borges

Language
  
English

Published in English
  
1962

Country
  
United States

Publisher
  
New Directions

Translator
  
Donald A. Yates, James E. Irby

Labyrinths (1962) is a collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges translated into the English-language.

Contents

It includes "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Garden of Forking Paths", and "The Library of Babel", three of Borges' most famous stories. Many of the stories are from the collections Ficciones (1944) and El Aleph (1949). The English edition was edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby.

Collected 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

    • Publication information

    Originally published by New Directions Publishing,

  • Original paperback: ISBN 978-0-8112-0012-7
  • Re-issue: ISBN 978-0-8112-1699-9, with introduction by William Gibson

    • There is also a Modern Library hardcover edition, ISBN 978-0-394-60449-7.

    References

    Labyrinths Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA