Labyrinths : Selected Stories and Other Writings

Labyrinths : Selected Stories and Other Writings
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was a literary spellbinder whose gripping tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated ´Library of Babel´, ´Garden of Forking Paths´, ´Funes the Memorious´ and ´Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote´. In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalizing parables to explore the enigmas of time, identity and imagination. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice...