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Labyrinths

Labyrinths

Labyrinths is an award-winning collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett.It includes, among other stories, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Garden of Forking Paths", and "The Library of Babel", three of Borges' most famous stories. The edition, published only in English, was edited by James E. Irby and Donald A. Yates, with a Preface by André Maurois of the Académie française and an Introduction by Professor Irby.


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“Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.”

"Partial Magic in the Quixote", Labyrinths (1964)

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