Take a new look at Labyrinths , the classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century—a true literary sensation—with cyber-author William Gibson.
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' 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 twenty-first century.

A collection of interviews now available from New Directions for the first time The words of a Borges at Eighty transcends our expectations of ordinary conversation. In these interviews with Barnstone, Dick Cavett, and Alastair Reid, Borges touches on favorite writers (Whitman, Poe, Emerson) and familiar themes ― labyrinths, mystic experiences, and death ― and always with great, throw-away humor. For example, discussing nightmares, he concludes,“When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.” 8 Black and white photographs

“Yo vivo, yo me dejo vivir, para que Borge pueda tramar su literatura y esa literatura me justifica”. —De “Borges y yo”

Considerado por el mismo Borges como su libro más personal, El hacedor explora la relación entre el mundo interior y exterior del artista, el misterioso espacio entre sus sueños y la vida real. Un maravilloso cruce de géneros y temáticas, los relatos, ensayos y poemas de esta colección reflejan muchas de las preocupaciones centrales que recorren toda la obra borgiana. En fascinantes escritos como “Diálogo sobre un diálogo”, “La trama”, “Dreamtigers”, y “Borges y yo”, entre otros muchos, Borges examina la serenidad de la mente creativa, el espectáculo de su figura pública, y mira hacia el más allá: el mundo eterno en el que sus libros continuarán dialogando con la literatura universal mucho después de que él mismo haya desaparecido. Valorado por la crítica como una de las obras más importantes del siglo xx, El hacedor es un extraordinario ejemplo del poder del maestro argentino, el alcance de su visión creativa y su inagotable contribución a la literatura.

Buddhism, love, Henry James, and the tango are just a few of the topics Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina’s master writer, and extraordinary conversationalist, discusses in the first volume of the remarkable new series, Conversations. The eighty-four-year-old blind man’s wit is unending and results in lively and insightful discussions that configure a loose autobiography of a subtle, teasing mind. Borges’ favorite concepts such as time and dreaming are touched upon, but these dialogues are not a true memoir, they are unrestricted conversations about life at present.
The Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, contributed immensely to twentieth-century literature, and more specifically to the genres of magical realism and fantasy. As he progressively lost his sight—he became completely blind by the age of fifty-five—the darkness behind his eyelids held enchanting imagery that translated into rich symbolism in his work. The inner workings of his curious mind are seen vividly in his conversations with Ferrari, and there’s not a subject on which he doesn’t cast surprising new light. As in his tale “The Other,” where two Borgeses meet up on a bench beside the River Charles, this is a dialogue between a young poet and the elder teller of tales where all experience floats in a miracle that defies linear time.

Few readers will want, or be able, to resist this modern bestiary. Borges’ cunning and humorous commentary is sheer delight.

Review
“Picture this: You’re an Argentine teenager, sitting in a lecture hall on the first day of classes, ready to learn about the history of English literature. In walks your kindly, elderly professor, and suddenly he starts speaking, about everything from The Dream of the Rood to Treasure Island, sometimes quoting entire paragraphs, without any notes whatsoever. He’s also blind (and has been for more than a decade). What would your reaction be?” (The Globe & Mail)
“Readers will probably find Professor Borges more enthralling as a document of Borges himself than as a guide to English literature. Borges’s vast erudition is felt everywhere in these pages, and he is at his best when he digresses.” (Will Glovinsky - The Rumpus)
“Borges’ delivery will engross you — he is an excellent storyteller.” (New York Daily News)
Product Description
In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde
Writing for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings’ kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, the book traverses a landscape of ‘precursors,’cross-cultural borrowings, and genres of expression, all connected by Borges into a vast interpretive web. This is the most surprising and useful of Borges’s works to have appeared posthumously.”
Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges’s lectures — delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition — bring the canon to remarkably vivid life. Now translated into English for the first time, these lectures are accompanied by extensive and informative notes by the Borges scholars Martín Arias and Martín Hadis.

Through a twist of fate that the author of "Labyrinths" himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the English language. Transcribed from tapes only recently discovered, "This Craft of Verse" captures the cadences, candour, wit and remarkable erudition of one of the most extraordinary and enduring literary voices of the 20th century. In its wide-ranging commentary and exquisite insights, the book stands as a deeply personal yet far-reaching introduction to the pleasures of the word, and as a first-hand testimony of to the life of literature. Though his avowed topic is poetry, Borges explores subjects ranging from prose forms (especially the novel), literary history and translation theory to philosophical aspects of literature in particular and communication in general. Probably the best-read citizen of the globe in his day, he draws on a wealth of examples from literature in modern and mediaeval English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese, speaking with characteristic eloquence on Plato, the Norse "kenningar", Byron, Poe, Chesterton, Joyce and Frost, as well as on translations of Homer, the Bible, and the "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam. Whether discussing metaphor, epic poetry, the origins of verse, poetic meaning, or his own "poetic creed", Borges gives a performance as entertaining as it is intellectually engaging. A lesson in the love of literature and in the making of a unique literary sensibility, this is a sustained encounter with one of the writers by whom the 20th century will be long remembered.

« Des nombreux problèmes qui exercèrent la téméraire perspicacité de Lönnrot, aucun ne fut aussi étrange - aussi rigoureusement étrange, dirons-nous - que la série périodique de meurtres qui culminèrent dans la propriété de Triste-Le-Roy, parmi l'interminable odeur des eucalyptus. Il est vrai qu'Eric Lönnrot ne réussit pas à empêcher le dernier crime, mais il est indiscutable qu'il l'avait prévu... »

一角獣、セイレーン、ゴーレム、八岐大蛇…。豊かな想像力が産みだした奇妙な存在たちを、知の怪物ボルヘスが集成した最良の異世界案内本。「イーリアス」「オデュッセイア」から、プリニウス「博物誌」、「千夜一夜物語」、ダンテ「神曲」、カフカ、C・S・ルイス等の著作まで、古今東西・森羅万象120項目を収載。

Diecisiete relatos breves que abren un mundo de reflexiones sobre las convenciones de lectura y el modo de entender la realidad. <Pensé en un laberinto, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros.> Ficciones es quizá el libro más reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges. Entre los cuentos que se reúnen aquí hay algunos de corte policial, como <La muerte y la brújula>, otros sobre libros imaginarios, como <Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius>, y muchos pertenecientes al género fantástico, como <Las ruinas circulares> o <El Sur>, acaso su mejor relato, en palabras del mismo autor. Está compuesto por los libros El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941) y Artificios (1944), considerados piezas fundamentales del universo borgeano. Jorge Luis Borges (Buenos Aires, 1899 ¿ Ginebra, 1986) es uno de los mayores escritores de habla hispana. Publicó libros de poesía, ensayo y cuentos, por los cuales ha obtenido renombre en todo el mundo. Recibió distinciones de universidades y gobiernos extranjeros y numerosos premios, entre los que se destaca el Cervantes en 1979.

The Book of Imaginary Beings is Borges&#146;s whimsical compendium of more than one hundred of the "strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination." This unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world&#146;s mythologies and literatures to bring together the fantastical inventions drawn from the Kabbalah, Homer, Confucius, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, and Kafka, among others. Here readers will find the familiar and expected dragons, centaurs, and unicorns, as well as the less familiar and altogether unexpected Animals That Live in the Mirror, the Humbaba, the Simurgh, and other undeniably curious beasts. Throughout, Borges&#146;s cunning and humorous commentary is sheer delight.
Andrew Hurley&#146;s brilliant new translation is perfectly paired with original drawings from award-winning illustrator Peter S&#237;s. The result is a wonderful gift book&#151;an Alice Through the Looking Glass menagerie, which should appeal not only to Borges aficionados but also to fantasy fans of all stripes and ages.

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Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.

《波赫士全集Ⅰ》第一位影響歐美文學的拉丁美洲作家，也被公認為二十世紀最博學的人之一的波赫士，簡練地勾勒著繁複多樣的魔幻寫實世界──不期而遇的錯置時空，正通往記憶與知識的邊陲，現實與異境形同鏡裡鏡外，此刻既是過去也是未來....目盲的先知在黑暗與光明間穿梭，把天堂想像成圖書館模樣，再把世界建構成一座座迷宮似的花園。正因為他，拉丁美洲文學才贏得世界聲譽，並開啟了西班牙語文的奇幻風貌。

第Ⅰ冊（1923～1949）收錄了《布宜諾斯艾利斯的激情》等最早的三本詩集；以及最足以代表魔幻寫實風格的短篇故事集：《惡棍列傳》、《虛構集》〔含《小徑分岔的花園》、《杜撰集》〕及《阿萊夫》....等。

《波赫士全集Ⅱ》作家的命運在他看來很奇特，開始總是「愛慕虛榮的巴洛克式」，多年後有可能達到的不是簡練（簡練算不了甚麼），而是「謙遜而隱蔽的複雜性」。古稀之年使他學會了心甘情願繼續做他的波 赫士。「世上的文章沒有一頁一字不是以宇宙為鑑，而宇宙最顯著的屬性便是紛紜複雜。」

第Ⅱ冊（1952～1972）收錄了具體呈現那種「簡練的繁複」的短篇故事集《布羅迪報告》；博識的散文 集《探討別集》；以及展現「語言的起源是非理性的，具有魔幻性質」、「詩歌是神秘的棋局」的 《另一個，同一個》、《影子的頌歌》、《老虎的金黃》....等知名詩集。

《波赫士全集Ⅲ》遺傳性失明讓波赫士在黑暗中透視著這世界長達三十多年。「失明是封閉狀態，但也是解放，是有利於創作的孤寂，是鑰匙和代數學。」「人人都是發現者，開始發現苦、鹹、凹陷、光滑、粗糙、彩虹的七色....，接著發現面龐、地圖、動物、天體；最後發現懷疑、信仰和幾乎完全能確定的自己的無知。」

第Ⅲ冊（1975～1985）收錄了最後的短篇故事集《沙之書》及《莎士比亞的記憶》；遊記《圖片冊》；散文集《有關但丁的隨筆九篇》；晚年詩集：《深沉的玫瑰》、《夜晚的故事》、《天數》、《密謀》....等。

《波赫士全集Ⅳ》一位王后臨終前形容自己是火與空氣，作家卻覺得自己是泥土，而且還是貧瘠的土。「然而，我仍在寫作。還能有別的甚麼選擇，別的甚麼更好的選擇？」「歷盡滄桑之後，我發現，跟幸福一樣，美是很常見的，我們沒有一天不在天堂裡面逗留片刻。」「我心裡一直在暗暗設想/天堂應該是圖書館的模樣。」

第Ⅳ冊（1975～1988）收錄了作者生前及身後的作品，包括《序言集成》；以時間為主題的《波赫士口述》五講；專欄文集《文稿拾零》；以及最晚出版的《私人藏書序言集》等。

Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life.

Accompanying that interview are a selection of the fascinating interviews he gave throughout his career. Highlights include his celebrated conversations with Richard Burgin during Borges's time as a lecturer at Harvard University, in which he gives rich new insights into his own works and the literature of others, as well as discussing his now oft-overlooked political views. The pieces combine to give a new and revealing window on one of the most celebrated cultural figures of the past century.

Ficciones, libro aparecido en 1944, con el que ganó el Gran Premio de Honor de la Sociedad Argentina de Escritores, es uno de los más representativos de su
estilo. En él están algunos de sus relatos más famosos, como «Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius»; «Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote»; «La biblioteca de Babel» o «El jardín
de senderos que se bifurcan». En su caso, hablar de relatos es sólo un modo de entendernos, y a falta de un término más adecuado para designar esta magistral
y sugestiva mezcla de erudición, imaginación, ingenio, profundidad intelectual e inquietud metafísica. Metáforas como la del laberinto, la biblioteca que coincide con el universo o la de la minuciosa reescritura del Quijote, pertenecen al centro del universo borgiano y, a través de sus millones de lectores en todas las lenguas, a la cultura universal.