Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges (English) P

Description: Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, Donald Yates, James Irby, Andre Maurois A collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin Americas influential and imaginative writers. It was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher 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". Author Biography 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 Publishers 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. 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." Kirkus US Review This is a collection, in translation, of the short, the very short stories, and a few of the critical essays of Argentinas most avant-garde writer. He was born of mixed Spanish, English, and remotely Portuguese-Jewish ancestry in Buenos Aires in 1899, inheriting as well the flux and inconsistency of a far-flung border area of Western culture. Borges began his litarary career as a poet, and then turned to these prose-poem stories and fables. They display an intellectual pyrotechnical brilliance, carried to the farthest limit. Borges nihilism also far outstrips Sartre or Becket, and in comparison with his elegance, invention and universal culture, they are not much more than bourgeois humanists. This Argentinian, with a cabalistic turn of mind, takes all literature, philosophy and metaphysics as his domain and they become, as Andre Maurois says in his preface, "a game of the mind". Borges seeks to astonish and does so successfully. His readership, while perhaps minimal, will find him exciting. (Kirkus Reviews) Details ISBN0141184841 Pages 288 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2000 ISBN-10 0141184841 ISBN-13 9780141184845 Format Paperback Subtitle Selected Stories and Other Writings Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from Spanish DEWEY 863 Author Andre Maurois Media Book Birth 1899 Death 1986 Short Title LABYRINTHS Language English Residence AG Series Penguin Modern Classics Imprint Penguin Classics Publication Date 2000-09-28 UK Release Date 2000-09-28 Edited by James Irby Audience General NZ Release Date 2000-10-26 AU Release Date 2000-10-26 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:531874;

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