In our experience, the most difficult of Borges's English-language editions to find in truly Fine condition. The collection includes twenty-three stories including the classic "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," about a new world where external objects are whatever each person wants "Pierre Menard," about the man who rewrote parts of Don Quixote word for word as well as "The Circular Ruins," "The Library of Babel," "The Garden of Forking Paths," "The Lottery of Babylon," and many other subtle fables full of wonderful intelligence, a wealth of invention and tight, almost mathematical style" (Barron, Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide 4A-41). "The definitive collection of Borges material in English, using material from Ficciones (1956), El aleph (1957), Discussión (1957), Otras inquisiciones (1960), and El hacedor (1960). Recall that the Lottery described a human institution. of the Argentine author's fantastical and metaphysical short stories. The two labyrinths ought to call to mind Tln, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and The Lottery: one way to think of them is as symbols for institutionalized religion which passes itself on as divine in the first labyrinth, versus the truly divine God expressed in the infinity of the second labyrinth. A monumental work, and the first appearance in the U.S. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $5.50). Signed by co-editor and translator Donald A. Octavo (21.75cm) turquoise patterned paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine yellow topstain dustjacket xxiv,248pp, with photographic frontispiece portrait of the author.
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