Labyrinths

Readers are invited to take a new look at "Labyrinths," the classic by Latin America's finest writer of the 20th century--a true literary sensation--with a new introduction by cyber-author William Gibson.

Preface

ix

(6)

Introduction

xv

Fictions

3

(174)

Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

3

(16)

The Garden of Forking Paths

19

(11)

The Lottery in Babylon

30

(6)

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

36

(9)

The Circular Ruins

45

(6)

The Library of Babel

51

(8)

Funes the Memorious

59

(8)

The Shape of the Sword

67

(5)

Theme of the Traitor and the Hero

72

(4)

Death and the Compass

76

(12)

The Secret Miracle

88

(7)

Three Versions of Judas

95

(6)

The Sect of the Phoenix

101

(4)

The Immortal

105

(14)

The Theologians

119

(8)

Story of the Warrior and the Captive

127

(5)

Emma Zunz

132

(6)

The House of Asterion

138

(3)

Deutsches Requiem

141

(7)

Averroes' Search

148

(8)

The Zahir

156

(9)

The Waiting

165

(4)

The God's Script

169

(8)

Essays

177

(60)

The Argentine Writer and Tradition

177

(9)

The Wall and the Books

186

(3)

The Fearful Sphere of Pascal

189

(4)

Partial Magic in the Quixote

193

(4)

Valery as Symbol

197

(2)

Kafka and His Precursors

199

(3)

Avatars of the Tortoise

202

(7)

The Mirror of Enigmas

209

(4)

A Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw

213

(4)

A New Refutation of Time

217

(20)

Parables

237

(16)

Inferno, I, 32

237

(1)

Paradiso, XXXI, 108

238

(2)

Ragnarok

240

(2)

Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote

242

(1)

The Witness

243

(1)

A Problem

244

(2)

Borges and I

246

(2)

Everything and Nothing

248

(3)

Elegy

251

(2)

Chronology

253

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