Labyrinths: Popular Penguins
$15.51
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2011
Summary
The Labyrinth of Dreams: Exploring Borges’ Timeless Worlds
Enter Borges’ timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence.
To read Labyrinths is to glide through time, space, mythology and philosophy, as Borges’ characters struggle towards devastating discovery. His essays and brief tantalizing parables explore the enigmas of ti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143566342 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143566342 |
| Series: | Popular Penguins |
| Author: | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 163g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 113mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and was educated in Europe. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of our time, he published many collections of poems, essays and short stories before his death in Geneva in 1986. He was director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973. Mario Vargas Llosa, in a tribute to Borges, has written- ‘His is a world of clear, pure, and at the same time unusual ideas expressed in words of great directness and restraint. He was a superb storyteller. One reads most of Borges’ tales with the hypnotic interest usually reserved for reading detective fiction…’
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