Labyrinths

by Borges, Jorge Luis

• ISBN13: 9780811200127
• ISBN10: 0811200124
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1964-06-01
• Publisher: New Directions

Summary

Readers are invited to take a new look at "Labyrinths," the classic by Latin America's finest writer of the 20th century--a true literary sensation--with a new introduction by cyber-author William Gibson.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(6)
Introduction	xv
Fictions	3	(174)
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius	3	(16)
The Garden of Forking Paths	19	(11)
The Lottery in Babylon	30	(6)
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote	36	(9)
The Circular Ruins	45	(6)
The Library of Babel	51	(8)
Funes the Memorious	59	(8)
The Shape of the Sword	67	(5)
Theme of the Traitor and the Hero	72	(4)
Death and the Compass	76	(12)
The Secret Miracle	88	(7)
Three Versions of Judas	95	(6)
The Sect of the Phoenix	101	(4)
The Immortal	105	(14)
The Theologians	119	(8)
Story of the Warrior and the Captive	127	(5)
Emma Zunz	132	(6)
The House of Asterion	138	(3)
Deutsches Requiem	141	(7)
Averroes' Search	148	(8)
The Zahir	156	(9)
The Waiting	165	(4)
The God's Script	169	(8)
Essays	177	(60)
The Argentine Writer and Tradition	177	(9)
The Wall and the Books	186	(3)
The Fearful Sphere of Pascal	189	(4)
Partial Magic in the Quixote	193	(4)
Valery as Symbol	197	(2)
Kafka and His Precursors	199	(3)
Avatars of the Tortoise	202	(7)
The Mirror of Enigmas	209	(4)
A Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw	213	(4)
A New Refutation of Time	217	(20)
Parables	237	(16)
Inferno, I, 32	237	(1)
Paradiso, XXXI, 108	238	(2)
Ragnarok	240	(2)
Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote	242	(1)
The Witness	243	(1)
A Problem	244	(2)
Borges and I	246	(2)
Everything and Nothing	248	(3)
Elegy	251	(2)
Chronology	253