{"product_id":"labyrinths-by-jorge-luis-borges-9780141184845","title":"Labyrinths","description":"\u003cp\u003eJorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, with an introduction by James E. Irby and a preface by André Maurois.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalising parables to explore the enigma of time, identity and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePlayful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 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). He has a reasonable claim, along with Kafka and Joyce, to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you enjoyed Labyrinths, you might like Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Other Stories, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'His is the literature of eternity' Peter Ackroyd, The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the towering figures of literature in Spanish' James Woodall, Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Probably the greatest twentieth-century author never to win the Nobel Prize' Economist\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jorge Luis Borges","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56895067586933,"sku":"9780141184845","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9780141184845.jpg?v=1773317879","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/labyrinths-by-jorge-luis-borges-9780141184845","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}