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Labyrinths : selected stories & other writings / Jorge Luis Borges ; edited by Donald A. Yates & James E. Irby ; preface by André Maurois.
LIBRA PQ7797.B635 L3 1964
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Van Pelt Library PQ7797.B635 L3 1964
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 186.
- New Directions paperbook
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English. 1964
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Translations into English.
- Borges, Jorge Luis.
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
- English literature.
- Short stories, Argentine.
- Manners and customs.
- Argentina--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Argentina.
- Short stories, Argentine--Translations into English.
- Spanish literature--Translations into English.
- Spanish literature.
- English literature--Translations into Spanish.
- Genre:
- Mystery and detective fiction -- Argentina.
- Fiction.
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 260 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- [Augmented edition].
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : [New Directions Publishing Corporation], [1964.]
- Summary:
- Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.
- Contents:
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis tertius
- The Garden of Forking Paths
- The lottery in Babylon
- Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote
- The circular ruins
- The library of Babel
- Funes the Memorious
- The shape of the sword
- Theme of the traitor and the hero
- Death and the compass
- The sweet miracle
- Three versions of Judas
- The Sect of the Phoenix
- The immortal
- The theologians
- Story of the warrior and the captive
- Emma Zunz
- The House of Asterion
- Deutsches requiem
- Averroes' search
- The Zahir
- The waiting
- The god's script
- The Argentine writer and tradition
- The wall and the books
- The fearful sphere of Pascal
- Partial magic in the Quixote
- Valéry as symbol
- Kafka and his precursors
- Avatars of the tortoise
- The mirror of enigmas
- A note on (toward) Bernard Shaw
- A new refutation of time
- Inferno, 1, 32
- Paradiso, XXXI, 108
- Ragnarök
- Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote
- The witness
- A problem
- Borges and I
- Everything and nothing
- Elegy.
- Notes:
- "A New Directions Book"--Title page.
- "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation ..."
- "This augmented edition was first published in 1984."
- "'All selections here included and translated into English have been taken from the following volumes originally published in Spanish by Emecé: Ficciones (1956), El Aleph (1957), Discussion (1957), Otras Inquisiciones (1960) and El Hacedor (1960)."
- Publisher's advertisements: [2] pages at end.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260).
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1983".
- Potok Collection copy is "Thirteenth Printing".
- Cited in:
- Becco, H.J. Borges, 1923-1973, p. 97
- Hubin, A.J. Crime fiction, 1749-1990, p. 88
- ISBN:
- 0811200124
- 9780811200127
- OCLC:
- 260942
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