Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 10: 0394604490 / ISBN 13: 9780394604497

Published by Modern Library January 1984, 1984

About this Item

First Modern Library Edition; Sound binding; Mild edge-wear; Previous owner name inked at front free end-page; Pages else clean; A Good copy, w/o jacket.

Seller Inventory # 389126

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Labyrinths
• Publisher: Modern Library January 1984
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394604490
• ISBN 13: 9780394604497
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction & Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Gathers stories about other worlds, paradoxes, and philosophical puzzles, and essays about literature

Review

If Jorge Luis Borges had been a computer scientist, he probably would have invented hypertext and the World Wide Web.

Instead, being a librarian and one of the world's most widely read people, he became the leading practitioner of a densely layered imaginistic writing style that has been imitated throughout this century, but has no peer (although Umberto Eco sometimes comes close, especially in Name of the Rose).

Borges's stories are redolent with an intelligence, wealth of invention, and a tight, almost mathematically formal style that challenge with mysteries and paradoxes revealed only slowly after several readings. Highly recommended to anyone who wants their imagination and intellect to be aswarm with philosophical plots, compelling conundrums, and a wealth of real and imagined literary references derived from an infinitely imaginary library.