Jorge Luis Borges
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| Title | : | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings |
| Author | : | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | English/Spanish Expanded ed. |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | 1964 by New Directions (first published 1962) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Short Stories. Classics. Literature. Magical Realism. Fantasy. Philosophy |
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Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: "Borges is a great writer who has composed only little essays or short narratives. Yet they suffice for us to call him great because of their wonderful intelligence, their wealth of invention, and their tight, almost mathematical style."Labyrinths is a representative selection of Borges' writing, some forty pieces drawn from various books of his published over the years. The translations are by Harriet de Onis, Anthony Kerrigan, and others, including the editors, who have provided a biographical and critical introduction, as well as an extensive bibliography.
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| Original Title: | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings |
| ISBN: | 0811200124 (ISBN13: 9780811200127) |
| Edition Language: | Multiple languages |
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Ratings: 4.46 From 26702 Users | 1322 ReviewsComment On Appertaining To Books Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
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Reading. No, thought. No, reality. Or, fiction? Fiction. But also time, and faith, and metonymy. How close is the instantaneous you to the you in context with time, space, and the integration over the infinite?What? What.The what is the period of time wherein I grew fed up with the knowing and began to contemplate the thinking, unknown and yet rather persistent seeing as it continues to niggle at me. Knowing helps, of course, in the foundations of common thought from which propagates
Borges miniature masterpieces reverberate with the vastness of his imagination, each short stories is a snapshot of both his endless erudition and vast imagination, as vast as the eternity which Jaromir is trapped in as he composes his masterpiece before the firing squad, as multifarious as the Judas who occupies the mind of Nile Runeberg and as mysterious as the enigmatic planet Tlon; just as Pierre Menards plagiarising of Don Quixote creates a richer version of the original as he suffuses his
Tlön is surely a labyrinth, but it is a labyrinth devised by men, a labyrinth destined to be deciphered by men. Labyrinths is a collection of short stories, essays, and other literary works. It is my first experience with Borges, but it shall not be the last. Borges writes but he does more than that. Hes a chimaera, part philosopher, part academic, part historian, and part bibliognost. His vast accumulated knowledge penetrates his work to create meta fiction that feels truly authentic, thus one
Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most imaginative writers I have come across, could have been a mathematician, a physicist, a philosopher or a theologian. I can see his influence on Umberto Eco in the manipulation of text and the blending between fiction and reality. To read Borgess Labyrinth is immerse myself in a magical world where the concept of infinity manifests in space and time, where the boundary between dream and reality fades, where the past and the future converge into an instant, where
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