Labyrinths : selected stories & other writings
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Labyrinths : selected stories & other writings
(A New Directions paperbook, 1066)
New Directions, 2007
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Labyrinths : selected stories and other writings
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"This volume was first published clothbound by New Directions in 1962; it was issued in an augmented edition as New Directions Paperbook 186 in 1964. Reissued as New Directions Paperbook 1066 in 2007 with a new prefece"--T.p. verso
Chronology: p. 253-256
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The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labeled Borgesian. Umberto Eco's international bestseller, The Name of the Rose, is, on one level, an elaborate improvisation on Borges' fiction "The Library," which American readers first encountered in the original 1962 New Directions publication of Labyrinths.
This new edition of Labyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges' writing edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (in translations by themselves and others), includes the text of the original edition (as augmented in 1964) as well as Irby's biographical and critical essay, a poignant tribute by Andre Maurois, and a chronology of the author's life. Borges enthusiast William Gibson has contributed a new introduction bringing Borges' influence and importance into the twenty-first century.
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