As Carlos Fuentes remarked, without Borges, the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist.

The Nation

The newest edition of Borges groundbreaking trans-genre collection of short stories

Labyrinths

Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges

Translated from Spanish by Donald Yates and James Irby

Edited by Donald Yates and James Irby

With a contribution by William Gibson

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.

Paperback(published May, 01 2007)

ISBN
9780811216999
Price US
15.95
Price CN
17.95
Trim Size
5x8
Page Count
288

audiobook

ISBN
9780811229951
Portrait of Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Twentieth-century Argentine author

As Carlos Fuentes remarked, without Borges, the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist.

The Nation

A giant of world literature.

John Updike, The New Yorker

When I read a good book, I sometimes like to think I might be capable of writing something similar, but never, in my wildest dreams, could I write anything that approaches the level of cleverness and intellect and madness of Borges. I don’t think anyone could.

Daniel Radcliffe, Oprah.com

The essays are always lucid and probing, and always slightly skewed, vaguely unsettling, again dislocating your sense of reality and truth. Ultimately it is this that always makes me return to Borges, this ability to make the world seem different . . .

The BBC