β Scribed by Dr. Charles "Hornblower" Gray
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original figures in modern literature. Labyrinths is a representative selection of Borges' writing, drawn from books published over the years, with one of the most famous being the short story The Library of Babel, in which he imagines an infinite library filled with every book written, not yet written, and every combination of words and letters in between.;Invitation / William Gibson -- Introduction / James E Irby -- Fictions: -- Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius -- Garden of forking paths -- Lottery in Babylon -- Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote -- Circular ruins -- Library of Babel -- Funes the Memorious -- Shape of the sword -- Theme of the traitor and the hero -- Death and the compass -- Secret miracle -- Three versions of Judas -- Sect of the Phoenix -- Immortal -- Theologians -- Story of the warrior and the captive -- Emma Zunz -- House of Asterion -- Deutsches Requiem -- Averroes' search -- Zahir -- Waiting -- God's script -- Essays: -- Argentine writer and tradition -- Wall and the books -- Fearful sphere of Pascal -- Partial magic in the Quixote -- Valery as symbol -- Kafka and his precursors -- Avatars of the tortoise -- Mirror of enigmas -- Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw -- New refutation of time -- Parables: -- Inferno, 1, 32 -- Paradiso, XXXI, 108 -- Ragnarok -- Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote -- Witness -- Problem -- Borges and I -- Everything and nothing -- Elegy -- Chronology.
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