Labyrinths cover art

Labyrinths

Selected Stories & Other Writings

Preview

Get 30 days of Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30-day free trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options
Buy Now for £18.99

Buy Now for £18.99

About this listen

Now, new in audio and completely unabridged, the collection that made Borges a household name in the English-speaking world.

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 labelled Borgesian.

Umberto Eco's international best seller The Name of the Rose is, on one level, an elaborate improvisation on Borges' 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' 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' influence and importance into the 21st century.

©1962, 1964, 2007 New Directions Publishing Corporation (P)2019 New Directions Publishing Corporation
Anthologies & Short Stories Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories United States World Literature Fiction
All stars
Most relevant
Could not finish it. The narrator would insist on stressing the wrong words. Hopefully there will be a better version.

Badly narrated

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Couldn't finish it. Poor, monotonous and non-engaging reading. The text is recited and not interpreted

Boring reading

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.