Labyrinths (1962) is an English-language collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges.
It includes Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The Garden of Forking Paths, and The Library of Babel, to name some of Borges' more 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
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (Spanish pronunciation: [xoɾxe lwis boɾxes]) (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in Surrealist literary journals. H...
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- "Borges once claimed that the basic devices of all fantastic literature are only four in number: the work within the work, the contamination of reality by dream, the voyage in time, and the double. These are both his essential themes--the problematical nature of the world, of knowledge, of time, of t"
- "I recalled that among the Ethiopians it is well known that monkeys deliberately do not speak so they will not be obliged to work, and I attributed Argos's silence to suspicion or fear."
- "This doctrinal item observed that the lottery is an interpolation of chance in the order of the world and that to accept errors is not to contradict chance:it is to corroborate it."
- "One of the schools of Tlon goes so far as to negate time: it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than as a present hope, that the past has no reality other than as a present memory. Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our lif"
- "Everything is repeated many times, fourteen times, but two things in the world seem to be only once: above, the intricate sun; below, Asterion. Perhaps I have created the stars and the sun and this enormous house, but I no longer remember."
- "Let others curse and weep; I rejoice the fact that our destiny completes its circle and is perfect."
- "I shall remain in Borges, not in myself (if it is true that I am someone), but I recognize myself less in his books than in many others or in the laborious strumming of a guitar. Years ago I tried to free myself from him and went from the mythologies of the suburbs to the games with time and infinit"
- "The literature of this hemisphere (like Meinong's subsistent world) abounds in ideal objects, which are convoked and dissolved in a moment, according to poetic needs. At times they are determined by mere simultaneity. There are objects composed of two terms, one of visual and another of auditory cha"
The Garden of Forking Paths
Collected Fictions![Ficciones [El Jardín de los Senderos que se Bifurcan (1941) and Artificios (1944)] (Alianza Emece)](https://static.book345.com/covers/s/9788420613208.jpg)
Ficciones [El Jardín de los Senderos que se Bifurcan (1941) and Artificios (1944)] (Alianza Emece)
Driftglass
Monkey King
Childhood, Youth, Dependency
The Great Gatsby
On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian
Faces of Love