Labyrinths

This English-language gathering of Borges's short fictions and essays, assembled in the early 1960s from work he wrote from the 1930s onward, is built around libraries, labyrinths, doubles, forgeries, and infinite books. Stories invent encyclopedias that create worlds, detectives who anticipate their murderers, and men who remember everything or who dream other men into being. The essays treat time, translation, and the idea of a literature made of variations. Settings shift from Buenos Aires to invented countries and to metaphysical spaces. The volume is a collection of thought-experiments in prose, not a novel and not a memoir.

Quarter bound in dark brown cloth with boards printed with design by Packer. Dark brown endleaves. Dark brown slipcase.