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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 868.6209
EAN num: 9780811216999
ISBN number: 0811216993
Label: New Directions
Manufacturer: New Directions
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 240
Printing Date: May 30, 2007
Publishing house: New Directions
Sale Popularity Level: 8433
Studio: New Directions
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Take a new look at Labyrinths, the classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century—a true literary sensation—with cyber-author William Gibson.
The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labeled Borgesian. Umberto Eco's international bestseller, The Name of the Rose, is, on one level, an elaborate improvisation on Borges' fiction 'The Library,' which American readers very first encountered in the original 1962 New Directions publication of Labyrinths.
This new edition of Labyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges' writing edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (in translations by themselves and others), includes the text of the original edition (as augmented in 1964) as well as Irby's biographical and critical essay, a poignant tribute by André Maurois, and a chronology of the author's life. Borges enthusiast William Gibson has contributed a new introduction bringing Borges' influence and importance into the twenty-first century.
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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.
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I speak both Spanish and English (and lived Argentina) and I can say that these English translations, particularly those of Yates, are some of the best I have come across. (Yates was Borges's very first English translator and the translator of another remarkable but little known Argentine writer, Edgar Brau.) Yates stays true to the original, gracefully rendering the complex subtleties of Borges's style, unlike some other translators of his work.
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Borges was a hep cat, man, I'll concede that & seems to read a bit but his stories read like friggin' medical textbooks! Fine for scientists & other geeks of that type but a bit dull for the average reader. My favorite story was `Garden of Forking Paths,' which is the clearest story & easiest to understand. The `Secret of the Sect of the Phoenix' I'm assuming deals with Freemasonry though Borges claims it was homosexuality. But then he claimed a lot of weird things.
Borges is like digesting an overdose of fiber, long, arduous, excruciating at times, & in the end stinky, heavy, & a little too black.
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Not short stories: abstracts of metaphysical tomes. Jabberwocky. Speculative philosophy died and went into these stories. Some alternate titles: Hegel as Literat. Neruda makes love to the void. Vallejo on valium. Avoid.
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Imagination, the Lord of Universe say mystics, poets, artists and every rebel for freedom, is hanging on the walls of this labyrinth like masterpieces in a museum of parables of desire and the whisperings of spirits telling stories that were lost for centuries on the dark side of the moon. This is a book that should be on somebody's list of greats:
100 greatest ever or 1,000 greatest or whatever - see if it makes your list.
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Borges is a writer with his own voice, non-conformist, well read, man who experienced very first hand political persecution in his native Argentina. Borges is a kind of writer able to transform his uniquely complex personal sensibilities to millions of his readers from all over the world. The beauty of his work is that he was able to merge the ideas of many writers, philosophers and thinkers into a style of his own. This is presentation of his work that includes stories and other writings long after Borges went blind and was able to dictate his work. Definitely type of writing meant for sophisticated minds. I completely enjoyed this book.
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