Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook)

Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook) | Jorge Luis Borges | Rod Sterling on Steroids

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	Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook) Jorge Luis Borges New Directions, 2007 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 39 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Take a new look at Labyrinths, the classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century?a true literary sensation?with cyber-author 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 André 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.

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Writings of a great reader

In "How To Read a Book" Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren describe the fourth level of reading. Synoptical reading challenges the reader who, having carefully and thoroughly understood several individual works, strives to hear the conversation of their ensemble. "Labyrinths" brings us the dreamlike reflections of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges's profoundly synoptical reading. Borges heard the conversation of writers across cultures, centuries, languages, genres. Then he came back to outline over and over the one nearly infinite and unattainable truth in these stories, essays, and parables.

Yet Borges's writings remain humble and personal. With the voice of a shy, erudite uncle, Borges recounts magical reveries that came to him deep in the stacks of some dim basement of the library. Throughout the text the reader feels at once the quiet loneliness of the bookworm, the presence of the immortal, and the terrible portents in the twilight rustling of leaves.

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Rod Sterling on Steroids

Imagination, the Lord of Universe say mystics, poets, artists and every rebel for freedom, is hanging on the walls of this labyrinth like masterpieces in a museum of parables of desire and the whisperings of spirits telling stories that were lost for centuries on the dark side of the moon. This is a book that should be on somebody's list of greats:
100 greatest ever or 1,000 greatest or whatever - see if it makes your list.

Mystical, cosmopolitan, multi-layered

Borges is a writer with his own voice, non-conformist, well read, man who experienced first hand political persecution in his native Argentina. Borges is a kind of writer able to transform his uniquely complex personal sensibilities to millions of his readers from all over the world. The beauty of his work is that he was able to merge the ideas of many writers, philosophers and thinkers into a style of his own. This is presentation of his work that includes stories and other writings long after Borges went blind and was able to dictate his work. Definitely type of writing meant for sophisticated minds. I completely enjoyed this book.

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Enjoy Borges

A nice light book for travel if you do not need all his works in one volume.

BORED BY BORGES

Having decided to find out what all the references to Borges were about, I bought and read (barely) this collection. I have read and enjoyed several Latin American writers and have several more I am looking forward to. Borges, however, is unique. I just haven't figured out - uniquely what? Frankly, I was bored 80% of the time I was reading this. I have given 3 stars for the mental workout and the occasional gem.

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