Labyrinths
(Paperback)
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Publishing Details
Labyrinths
By (Author) Jorge Luis Borges
Edited by Donald Yates
Edited by James Irby
Preface by Andre Maurois
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
27th October 2000
28th September 2000
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
863
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 17mm
216g
Description
Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated "Library of Babel".
Reviews
Borges anticipated postmodernism (deconstruction and so on) and picked up credit as founding father of Latin American magical realism.--Colin Waters
Borges is arguably the great bridge between modernism and post-modernism in world literature.--David Foster Wallace
"Great because of their wonderful intelligence."
Author Bio
Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He died in 1986. He has a reasonable claim, with Kafka and Joyce, to be the most influential writer of the 20th Century.
