Synopses & Reviews
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's fiction "The Library," which American readers first encountered in the original 1962 New Directions publication of
Labyrinths.
This new edition of Labyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges's 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's influence and importance into the 21st century.
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"Borges is arguably the great bridge between modernism and postmodernism in world literature." David Foster Wallace
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"Borges anticipated postmodernism (deconstruction and so on) and picked up credit as founding father of Latin American magical realism." The New York Times
Synopsis
This new edition ofLabyrinths, 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 Andre 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. "
Synopsis
The classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century a true literary sensation with an introduction by cyber-author William Gibson.
About the Author
Jorge Luis Borges (1890-1982), Argentine poet, critic, and short-story writer, revolutionized modern literature. He was completely blind when appointed the head of Argentina's National Library.
William Gibson's first novel Neuromancer (1989) was a worldwide bestseller. Born in 1948 in South Carolina, Gibson is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Pattern Recognition, as well as Idora, Count Zero, Virtual Light, and All Tomorrow's Parties, and has been credited with coining the term "cyberspace."