Labyrinths is an English-language collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...

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It includes "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is a short story by the 20th century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in the Argentine journal Sur, May 1940. The "postscript" dated 1947 is intended to be anachronistic, set seven years in the future...

", "The Garden of Forking Paths

The Garden of Forking Paths

"The Garden of Forking Paths" is a 1941 short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is the title story in the collection El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan , which was republished in its entirety in Ficciones in 1944...

", and "The Library of Babel

The Library of Babel

"The Library of Babel" is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges , conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format....

", three of Borges' most famous stories. Many of the stories are from the collections Ficciones

Ficciones

Ficciones is the most popular anthology of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, often considered the best introduction to his work. Ficciones should not be confused with Labyrinths, although they have much in common. Labyrinths is a separate translation of Borges' material,...

(1944) and El Aleph (1949). The English edition was edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby.

Collected stories

• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
  Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
  "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is a short story by the 20th century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in the Argentine journal Sur, May 1940. The "postscript" dated 1947 is intended to be anachronistic, set seven years in the future...
  
  
• The Garden of Forking Paths
  The Garden of Forking Paths
  "The Garden of Forking Paths" is a 1941 short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is the title story in the collection El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan , which was republished in its entirety in Ficciones in 1944...
  
  
• The Lottery in Babylon
  The Lottery in Babylon
  "The Lottery in Babylon" is a fantasy short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges...
  
  
• Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
• The Circular Ruins
  The Circular Ruins
  "The Circular Ruins" is a fantasy short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. Published in the literary journal Sur in December 1940, it was included in the 1941 collection The Garden of Forking Paths and then in part one of the 1944 collection Ficciones...
  
  
• The Library of Babel
  The Library of Babel
  "The Library of Babel" is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges , conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format....
  
  
• Funes the Memorious
  Funes the Memorious
  "Funes the Memorious" is a fantasy short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. First published in La Nación in June 1942, it appeared in the 1944 anthology Ficciones, part two . The first English translation appeared in 1954 in Avon Modern Writing No. 2...
  
  
• The Shape of the Sword
• Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
  Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
  "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" is a short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges originally published in 1944 in number 112 of the review Sur....
  
  
• Death and the Compass
  Death and the Compass
  Death and the Compass is British director Alex Cox's second Mexican feature , made in 1992. Based on the short story Death and the Compass by Jorge Luis Borges, the film is in English, and stars Peter Boyle as Erik Lönnrot the detective, Miguel Sandoval as Treviranus, his boss, and Christopher...
  
  
• The Secret Miracle
  The Secret Miracle
  "The Secret Miracle" is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It was first published in the magazine Sur in February 1943.-Plot:...
  
  
• Three Versions of Judas
  Three Versions of Judas
  "Three versions of Judas" is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It was included in Borges' anthology, Ficciones, published in 1944. Like several other Borges stories, it is written in form of a scholarly article...
  
  
• The Sect of the Phoenix
  The Sect of the Phoenix
  "The Sect of the Phoenix" is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in Sur in 1952. It was included in the 1956 edition of Ficciones, part two...
  
  
• The Immortal
• The Theologians
  The Theologians
  "The Theologians" is a short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was featured in the collection Labyrinths...
  
  
• Story of the Warrior and the Captive
• Emma Zunz
  Emma Zunz
  "Emma Zunz" is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The tale recounts how its eponymous heroine avenges the death of her father. Originally published in September 1948 in the magazine Sur, it was reprinted in Borges' 1949 collection The Aleph....
  
  
• The House of Asterion
  The House of Asterion
  "The House of Asterion" is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in Los Anales de Buenos Aires in May 1947. It was reprinted in the short-story collection El Aleph in 1949.-Plot summary:The story takes the form of a monologue by Asterion...
  
  
• Deutsches Requiem
• Averroes' Search
• The Zahir
  The Zahir
  The Zahir is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is one of the stories in the book The Aleph and Other Stories, first published in 1949, and revised by the author in 1974....
  
  
• The Waiting
• The God's Script
  The Writing of the God
  "The Writing of the God" is a short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was published in Sur in February 1949, and later reprinted in the collection The Aleph.- Plot summary :...
  
  

Publication information

Originally published by New Directions Publishing,

• Original paperback: ISBN 978 0 8112 0012 7
• Re-issue: ISBN 978 0 8112 1699 9, with introduction by William Gibson
  William Gibson
  William Gibson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.William Gibson may also refer to:-Association football:*Will Gibson , Scottish footballer...
  
  

There is also a Modern Library

Modern Library

The Modern Library is a publishing company. Founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright as an imprint of their publishing company Boni & Liveright, it was purchased in 1925 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer...

 hardcover edition, ISBN 978 0 394 60449 7.

External links

• Borges and other 20th century writers
• Labyrinths, preview at Google Books