If you enjoyed Labyrinths, you might like Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Other Stories, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. He has a reasonable claim, along with Kafka and Joyce, to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice. In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalising parables to explore the enigma of time, identity and imagination.

This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated 'Library of Babel', whose infinite shelves contain every book that could ever exist, 'Funes the Memorious' the tale of a man fated never to forget a single detail of his life, and 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote', in which a French poet makes it his life's work to create an identical copy of Don Quixote. Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Donald A. The labyrinth will also be the backdrop for a long-term programme of varied cultural events (research projects, lectures, master classes, workshops, art shows, productions and performances of plays, videos, choreographies and concerts).Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers. Jorge Luis Borges’ collection of short stories known as Labyrinths reflects the most influential features of postmodern literature where the reality is combined with illusions and paradoxes. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: Borges is a great writer who has composed only little essays or.

The aim of the project is to create a garden full of spiritual meanings in memory of Borges and so generate further public interest in his world. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, unknown edition.

The labyrinth will be constructed on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in the area to the rear of the Palladian Cloister and the Cypress Cloister, so as to form a kind of “third cloister”. One of the Argentinean writer’s favourite cities, a reconstruction of the maze that the British architect Randoll Coate designed in the writer’s honour and originally donated to the Borges Foundation. His short story The Library of Babel is a. To mark the 25th anniversary of the death (14 June 1986 - 14 June 2011) of the celebrated writer Jorge Luis Borges, the Fundación Internacional Jorge Luis Borges and the Giorgio Cini Foundation will present to Venice Tar for Mortar offers an in-depth exploration of one of literatures greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges.

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