Labyrinths
Selected Stories and Other Writings
$23.92
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2000
Summary
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”.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141184845 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141184841 |
| Author: | Jorge Luis Borges, Donald Yates, James Irby, Andre Maurois |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2000 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
Borges anticipated postmodernism (deconstruction and so on) and picked up credit as founding father of Latin American magical realism.–Colin WatersBorges is arguably the great bridge between modernism and post-modernism in world literature.–David Foster Wallace“Great because of their wonderful intelligence.”
About The Author
Jorge Luis Borges
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.
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