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Labyrinths : selected stories & other writings

Title
Labyrinths : selected stories & other writings / Jorge Luis Borges ; edited by Donald A. Yates & James E. Irby ; preface by André Maurois.
Author
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986
Publication
  • New York : New Directions, [1964]
  • ©1964

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Additional Authors
  • Yates, Donald A.
  • Irby, James East, 1931-
  • Maurois, André, 1885-1967
  • Mangan, Sherry, 1904-1961
  • Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
  • Kuhlman, Gilda
  • New Directions Publishing, publisher.
  • Murray Printing Company, printer.
  • James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Description
xxiii, 260 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.
Series Statement
New Directions paperbook ; 186
Uniform Title
  • Works. Selections. English. 1964
  • New Directions paperbook ; 186.
Alternative Title
Works. 1964
Subject
  • Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 > Translations into English
  • Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986
  • Short stories, Argentine > Translations into English
  • Manners and customs
  • Short stories, Argentine
  • Argentina > Social life and customs > Fiction
  • Argentina
Genre/Form
  • Essays.
  • Fiction.
  • Parables.
  • Short stories.
  • Translations.
  • Mystery and detective fiction – Argentina.
Note
  • Short stories, essays and parables.
  • "A New Directions book" -- title page.
  • "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260).
Indexed In (note)
  • Becco, H.J. Borges, 1923-1973
  • Hubin, A.J. Crime fiction, 1749-1990
  • Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
Binding (note)
  • bound in publishers' original paperback binding, cover designed by Gilda Kuhlman.
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.
Call Number
Arents Borges 02-277
ISBN
  • 0811200124
  • 9780811200127
LCCN
64025440
OCLC
260942
Author
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986, author.
Title
Labyrinths : selected stories & other writings / Jorge Luis Borges ; edited by Donald A. Yates & James E. Irby ; preface by André Maurois.
Publisher
New York : New Directions, [1964]
Copyright Date
©1964
Edition
[Augmented edition].
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 186
New Directions paperbook ; 186.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260).
Indexed In:
Becco, H.J. Borges, 1923-1973, page 97
Hubin, A.J. Crime fiction, 1749-1990, page 88
Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 58
Binding
Copy in Berg Coll 22-598 bound in publishers' original paperback binding, cover designed by Gilda Kuhlman. NN
Local Note
Copy in Berg Coll 22-598 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
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Added Author
Yates, Donald A., editor, translator.
Irby, James East, 1931- editor, translator.
Maurois, André, 1885-1967, writer of preface.
Mangan, Sherry, 1904-1961, translator.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.
Kuhlman, Gilda, cover designer.
New Directions Publishing, publisher.
Murray Printing Company, printer.
Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.
Javitch, Daniel, donor.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.
James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Research Call Number
Berg Coll 22-598
Arents Borges 02-277
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