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Labyrinths
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Labyrinths (1962) (edit title/settings)

Selected Stories and Other Writings

by Jorge Luis Borges (Author) (edit contributors)

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A collection of short stories, essays and parables.

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  • “Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic.”

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I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

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FICTIONS
1.Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Terius
2.The Garden of Forking Paths
3.The Lottery in Babylon
4.Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
5.The Circular Ruins
6.The Library of Babel
7.Funes the Memorious
8.The Shape of the Sword
9.Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
10.Death and the Compass
11.The Secret Miracle
12.Three Versions of Judas
13.The Sect of the Phoenix
14.The Immortal
15.The Theologians
16.Story of the Warrior and the Captive
17.Emma Zunz
18.The House of Asterion
19.Deutsches Requiem
20.Averroes' Search
21.The Zahir
22.The Waiting
23.The God's Script
ESSAYS
24.The Argentine Writer and Tradition
25.The Wall and the Books
26.The Fearful Sphere of Pascal
27.Partial Magic in the Quixote
28.Valery as Symbol
29.Kafka and His Precursors
30.Avatars o f the Tortoise
31.The Mirror of Enigmas
32.A Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw
33.A New Refutation of Time
PARABLES
34.Inferno, I, 32
35.Paradiso, XXXI, 108
36.Ragnarok
37.Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote
38.The Witness
39.A Problem
40.Borges and I
41.Everything and Nothing
42.Elegy
CHRONOLOGY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
43.Chronology
44.Bibliography

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 441 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Golden Notebook, and followed by Girl with Green Eyes.

This book is in Penguin Modern Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
This book is in William H. Gass’s Fifty Literary Pillars. (community list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Jorge Luis Borges (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Donald A. Yates (Editor)
  2. James East Irby (Editor)
  3. André Maurois (Preface)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: New Directions
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1962
ISBN: 978 0 8112 0012 7
Page Count: 260

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