Its function was to hold the Minotaur, the monster eventually killed by the hero Theseus. In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth ( Ancient Greek: Λαβύρινθος, romanized: Labúrinthos) was an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.
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.
Jorge Luis Borges’s Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America’s most influential and imaginative writers.
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