Many of the stories are from the collections Ficciones (1944) and El Aleph (1949). It includes 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius', 'The Garden of Forking Paths', and 'The Library of Babel', three of Borges' most famous stories. Labyrinths (1962) is a collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges.

(Book 441 From 1001 Books) - Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings, Jorge Luis Borges Coetzee said of Borges: 'He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish American novelists.' His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe.

In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first International Publishers' Prize Prix Formentor. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library (Biblioteca Nacional) and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He was a target of political persecution during the Peron regime, and supported the military juntas that overthrew it.ĭue to a hereditary condition, Borges became blind in his late fifties. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in Surrealist literary journals. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, usually referred to as Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish pronunciation: ), was an Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires.

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