Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

This bilingual collection gathers Jorge Luis Borges's most celebrated short stories and essays, bridging his earlier volumes Ficciones and The Aleph with his later prose. The stories are renowned for their intricate metaphysical puzzles, exploring concepts such as infinite libraries, branching timelines, and the nature of reality through a lens of erudite irony. The accompanying essays, drawn from Otras inquisiciones and other works, extend these themes into literary criticism and philosophical inquiry, examining the interplay between literature, history, and metaphysics. Borges’s prose is characterized by a precise, academic register that masks a playful, labyrinthine intellectual structure, inviting readers to navigate the paradoxes of time, identity, and knowledge.

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