Labyrinths

Collection of short stories and essays. Many of the stories are from the collections Ficciones (1944) and El Aleph (1949). Edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby. Re-issue with introduction by William Gibson.

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 Secret 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

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”.