{"description": "Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays by the writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett.\r\n\r\nIt includes, among other stories, \"Tl\u00f6n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius\", \"The Garden of Forking Paths\", and \"The Library of Babel\", three of Borges' most famous stories.\r\n\r\nStories\r\n[Tl\u00f6n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W)\r\nThe Garden of Forking Paths\r\nThe Lottery in Babylon\r\nPierre Menard, Author of the Quixote\r\nThe Circular Ruins\r\nThe Library of Babel\r\nFunes the Memorious\r\nThe Shape of the Sword\r\nTheme of the Traitor and the Hero\r\nDeath and the Compass\r\nThe Secret Miracle\r\nThree Versions of Judas\r\nThe Sect of the Phoenix\r\nThe Immortal\r\nThe Theologians\r\nStory of the Warrior and the Captive\r\nEmma Zunz\r\nThe House of Asterion\r\nDeutsches Requiem\r\nAverroes' Search\r\nThe Zahir\r\nThe Waiting\r\nThe God's Script\r\nStories 1-13 are from Ficciones; 14-23 are from The Aleph.\r\n\r\nEssays\r\nThe Argentine Writer and Tradition\r\nThe Wall and the Books\r\nThe Fearful Sphere of Pascal\r\nPartial Magic in the Quixote\r\nVal\u00e9ry as Symbol\r\nKafka and His Precursors\r\nAvatars of the Tortoise\r\nThe Mirror of Enigmas\r\nA Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw\r\nA New Refutation of Time\r\nAll essays are from Otras inquisiciones, except The Argentine Writer and Tradition and Avatars of the Tortoise which are from Discusi\u00f3n\r\n\r\nParables\r\nInferno, I, 32\r\nParadiso, XXXI, 108\r\nRagnar\u00f6k\r\nParable of Cervantes and the Quixote\r\nThe Witness\r\nA Problem\r\nBorges and I\r\nEverything and Nothing\r\nAll parables are from The Maker", "title": "Labyrinths", "covers": [10831408, 598531, -1], "subject_places": ["Argentina", "Tl\u00f6n", "Uqbar", "Orbis Tertius", "Buenos Aires", "Lucerne", "London", "United States", "United Kingdom", "Germany", "Ashgrove", "Stephen Albert", "Doctor Albert's house", "Albert", "Berlin", "Babylon", "Fray Bentos", "Uruguay", "Egypt", "Prague", "Clementinum library", "India", "Lund", "Thebes", "City of the Immortals", "Africa", "Stamford Bridge", "Bombay", "Eritrea", "Smyrna", "Ravenna", "House of Asterion", "Marienburg", "West Prussia", "Tilsit", "Czechoslovakia", "Nazi Germany"], "subjects": ["Anachronisms", "speculative fiction", "subjective idealism", "duodecimals", "aneurysms", "adjectives", "hermeticism", "philanthropy", "cabala", "persecution", "World War I", "Abteilung IIIb", "Chinese people", "Irish Catholics", "British Empire", "Sinologists", "revolvers", "hanging", "murder", "capital punishment", "Imperial German Air Service", "lotteries", "hexagons", "permutations", "languages", "Latin", "telegrams", "Gaelic", "Tetragrammaton", "Hebrew calendar", "equilateral triangle", "rhombuses", "Kabbalah", "playwrights", "World War II", "Judaism", "Anschluss", "Illiad", "Byzantine Army", "embezzlement", "defamation", "queens", "German nobility", "Lutheranism", "Christianity", "Nazi Party", "synagogues", "Wermacht", "German occupation of Czechoslovakia", "concentration camps", "Jews", "cowards", "compassion", "Second Battle of El Alamein", "crimes against humanity", "execution by firing squad", "early Islamic philosophy", "Poetics", "theatre", "fixation", "reality", "pesos", "train of thought", "history", "legends", "free will", "neighbourhoods", "tigers", "astrolabes", "wells", "marble", "mosques", "Aztecs", "jaguars", "Argentine literature", "Fiction", "Literary Collections", "Literature", "Literature Classics", "Literature Texts", "Manners and customs", "Short Stories (single author)", "Social life and customs", "Spanish literature", "Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)", "Translations into English", "Argentine Short stories", "Argentina, fiction", "Fiction, short stories (single author)", "English literature", "Translations from Spanish", "Borges, jorge luis , 1899-1986", "Pq7797.b635 a2 2007", "868/.6209", "Public Finance", "Money", "Economic conditions", "Social lfe and customs"], "key": "/works/OL110959W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL18928A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "links": [{"title": "Labyrinths - Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinths", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "subject_times": ["1935-1947", "17th century", "1947", "1940", "1941", "1942", "1944", "1884", "1887", "December", "January", "February", "June 1929", "October 1929", "1872", "1908", "February 7 1941", "March 1 1939"], "subject_people": ["Jorge Luis Borges", "Adolfo Bioy Casares", "Herbert Ashe", "Ezra Buckley", "Jesus Christ", "Faucigny Lucinge", "Yu Tsun", "Richard Madden", "Viktor Runeberg", "Walter Nicolai", "Ts'ui P\u00ean", "Pierre Menard", "Don Quixote", "Purifiers", "Ireneo Funes", "John Vincent Moon", "Judas", "Fergus Kilpatrick", "William Shakespeare (1564-1616)", "Ryan", "Nolan", "L\u00f6nnrot", "God", "Red Scharlach", "Jaromir Hlad\u00edk", "Nazis", "Nils Runeberg", "Solomon", "Plato", "Alexander Pope", "Princess of Lucinge", "Joseph Cartaphilus", "Marcus Flaminius Rufus", "Diocletian", "Argos", "Homer", "Sinbad the Sailor", "Ulysses", "Nahum Cordovero", "Pliny the Elder", "Thomas De Quincey", "Ren\u00e9 Descartes", "Aurelian", "John of Pannonia", "Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)", "Droctulft", "Paul the Deacon", "Lombards", "Emma Zunz", "Aaron Lowenthal", "Asterion", "Ariadne", "Minotaur", "Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)", "Napoleon Bonaparte", "Averro\u00ebs", "Tzinac\u00e1n", "Pedro de Alvarado"], "latest_revision": 34, "revision": 34, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-17T23:59:58.253545"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-05-05T02:39:34.721658"}}