once these relationships are pointed out, it must be said that Borges's style is, like his thought, highly original". Second, that Borges has many precursors, but is in the end, almost entirely unique - ".
His erudition is not profound ― he asks of it only flashes of lightning and ideas ― but it is vast.". Borges has read everything, and especially what nobody reads any more: the Cabalists, the Alexandrine Greeks, medieval philosophers. He makes three main points: first, that Borges was highly influenced by his wide and obscure reading, making the assertion that, "His sources are innumerable and unexpected. Stories 1–13 are from Ficciones 14–23 are from The Aleph.Īll essays are from Otras inquisiciones (1952), except "The Argentine Writer and Tradition" and "Avatars of the Tortoise" which are from Discusión (1932).Īndré Maurois in the Preface of Labyrinths provides a critical overview of Borges's work. " Story of the Warrior and the Captive"." Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote".Yates, with a preface by André Maurois of the Académie française and an introduction by Irby.īesides the different stories and essays by Borges mentioned below, the book also contains a preface and introduction, an elegy for Borges, a chronology of Borges's life, and a bibliography. The edition, published only in English, was edited by James E. It includes, among other stories, " Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", " The Garden of Forking Paths", and " The Library of Babel", three of Borges's most famous stories. It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Labyrinths (1962, 1964, 1970, 1983) is a collection of short stories and essays by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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