Labyrinths; selected stories and other writings [translated from the Spanish]; (Penguin modern classics)

Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 10: 0140029818 / ISBN 13: 9780140029819

Published by Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, 1972

About this Item

A very good copy, for its age, of the3rd reprint (1972) of first edition of this translation, first published by Penguin ion 1970. No Dust Jacket (as issued). Cover: blackand grey laminated card with colour photo image of a painting by Portocarrero and grey and white lettering to front, and black lettering to spine and rear; very bright and clean; just a few signs of shelf wear; slightest rubbing to all edges and corners commensurate with age and use but overall, very good for its age. Internally: very clean and tightly bound; no markings inscriptions or book plates; overall in very good condition. 404 pp.

Seller Inventory # 003613

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Labyrinths; selected stories and other writings [translated from the Spanish]; (Penguin modern classics)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140029818
• ISBN 13: 9780140029819
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 3rd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 200 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A collection of short stories, essays and parables.

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.