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Labyrinths
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Publisher's summary
Now, new in audio and completely unabridged, the collection that made Borges a household name in the English-speaking world.
The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labelled Borgesian.
Umberto Eco's international best seller The Name of the Rose is, on one level, an elaborate improvisation on Borges' fiction "The Library", which American readers first encountered in the original 1962 New Directions publication of Labyrinths.
This new edition of Labyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges' writing edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (in translations by themselves and others), includes the text of the original edition (as augmented in 1964) as well as Irby's biographical and critical essay, a poignant tribute by André Maurois, and a chronology of the author's life. Borges enthusiast William Gibson has contributed a new introduction, bringing Borges' influence and importance into the 21st century.
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- Lars Spuybroek
- 05-27-20
Look, this is Borges
Borges is fantastic, in many ways. Truly superb writing and thinking--but why have it read by a narrator who can't pronounce the words? Narrators should read the book in advance, make notes and find out how to pronounce the foreign names and words, or else it becomes a travesty. Audible should set standards of how to approach such a task, instead of just putting somebody in front of a microphone. I mean, we're speaking of one of the greatest authors ever.
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- Kevin W
- 03-09-21
Staccato reading style is annoying
I’d read a numbers of the stories in Labyrinths years ago. I thought the audiobook version would be a great way to re-enjoy the works of Borges.
Sadly, this audiobook version did not fulfill my expectations.
The narrator’s style of reading becomes more and more aggravating the further into the book one gets.
He reads as if every comma is a period, and then he fills each sentence with imaginary commas.
Read for three seconds...
Pause...
Read for three seconds...
Pause
And so on.
In addition, his pronunciation of certain common words is odd; his pronunciation of non-English words comes scross as clumsy.
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- R. Martocci
- 09-25-20
Jungian Existentialist Inquiry Obviates Meaning
Borges is one of the great writers, ever. This book compiles short stories with his reviews of other authors; recommending and analyzing for us those authors, as well as the author at hand. Reading the authors he discusses, serves to discern the subtleties of Borges' worldview.: deconstruction of the Jungian "Magician/Wizard" archetype in the context of existential futility. Existential inquiry demonstrates the relevance of meaning via reciprocal dialectical opposition; in that he pursues it, it has relevance. His pursuit defines the context of the meaning he's searching for. All meaning has to be is relevant to understanding growth experience, which his inquiry uncovers in abundance. The search for meaning, obviates the relevance of meaning to contemplative introspection on experience and validates growth as a rationally self-interested proposal. Though, his core themes analyze existential futility; the relevance of the inquiry itself to understanding, obviates the pursuit of meaningful (material) good and its concomitantly related, rational expectations of probabilistic outcomes. Relevant "material good" is useful to rational worldview; if the ostensible goal of meaningful experience, is to realize personal or cultural progress. Progress is only achieved in awareness. One must understand how and why the likely outcome of our efforts, will serve rationally perceived best interests; in order for given behavior to reflect meaningful growth experience.
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- Daniushka
- 08-10-21
What a shame
Borges is a genius but the way these stories were read, “declaimed” is a better description, takes away all the charm and mystery. Borges deserves better.
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- 12-15-21
Stimulating book, but what's with that narrator?
I especially enjoyed the essays, but the narrator mispronounced so many words, including names, that I wonder whether some deliberate Borges joke was in play.
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- Spiral,
- 09-07-21
Not for me
There was nothing in the story that would catch my attention. The artist's voice and performance did not help: sounded like a polished computer reading.
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- FredZarguna
- 01-08-21
Some of the very best of the incomparable Borges
generally performed with just the right tone and effect. my only criticism would be that the authors pronunciation of some words is questionable in my opinion and his pronunciation of German is atrocious. fortunately there are not many German phrases or words in the book.
if you've never been exposed to Borges before, this work is an excellent place to start containing fiction, essays, and parables. That this man was never awarded a Nobel prize for literature is one of the great injustices of literary history.
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- Miasmas
- 11-23-21
Better Living Through Audio
This work attempts to unpack a lifetime dedicated to the exploration of writing and purpose. The audio helps greatly with the freedom to simply "scrub" back and forth when the density becomes illusive or problematic. This allowed me to listen completely as I drove about; and still I want to explore the book further, dig through notes, to travel a sort of astral landscape. Inspiration similar to a great musical album. This is the first audiobook that may live on my phone rent free.
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- David A. Howarth
- 11-12-22
Bizarre pronunciation
I'm not sure whether some of the very odd and offputting pronunciations of some words, at times to the point of near-incomprensibility, are due to the narrator's dialect of English or unfamiliarity with particular words. In most cases this problem does not detract from the understanding of the narrative in a serious way, but it's distracting nonetheless. His German pronunciation is also generally atrocious; I cannot speak to his handling of the many brief passages, phrases and names in French and Spanish, but these seem okay to my untrained ear.
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- Phil F.
- 10-05-21
Scriptural in significance
I would say this Fabulous book has the significance of a scripture. I’m sucked in. I while Audible offered the complete stories. To bad it is I Spanish.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-07-22
Boring reading
Couldn't finish it. Poor, monotonous and non-engaging reading. The text is recited and not interpreted
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- Nagarjunia
- 05-17-20
Badly narrated
Could not finish it. The narrator would insist on stressing the wrong words. Hopefully there will be a better version.
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Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of his life. Brilliantly translated, these stories combine a direct and at times almost colloquial style coupled with Borges's signature fantastic inventiveness. Containing such marvelous tales as "The Congress," "Undr," "The Mirror and the Mask," and "The Rose of Paracelsus," this edition showcases Borges's depth of vision and superb image-conjuring power.
By: Jorge Luis Borges, and others
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A Universal History of Iniquity
- By: Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Castulo Guerra
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
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In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal betrayal, and bloodthirsty revenge. Sparkling with the sheer exuberant pleasure of story-telling, this collection marked the emergence of an utterly distinctive literary voice.
By: Jorge Luis Borges, and others
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The Aleph and Other Stories
- By: Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley - translator
- Narrated by: Castulo Guerra
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s “killer,” and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house.
By: Jorge Luis Borges, and others
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Collected Fictions
- By: Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley - translator
- Narrated by: Castulo Guerra
- Length: 27 hrs and 24 mins
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For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare’s Memory—Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself.
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Borges Collected Fictions Trans Hurley
- By 0 on 09-08-23
By: Jorge Luis Borges, and others
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Collected Fictions
- By: Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley - translator
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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From his 1935 debut with "The Universal History of Iniquity", through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language.
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Good but incomplete
- By Aaron on 12-17-18
By: Jorge Luis Borges, and others
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Ficciones [Fictions]
- By: Jorge Luis Borges
- Narrated by: Gerardo Prat
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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Ficciones es posiblemente la obra más reconocida de Jorge Luis Borges y un hito en la historia de la literatura. Aquí se encuentran lo policiaco («La muerte y la brújula») y lo fantástico («La lotería en Babilonia»), lo irreal («Las ruinas circulares») y lo imaginario («Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius»), el que Borges consideró acaso su mejor cuento («El Sur») y uno de los comienzos más cautivadores de un relato jamás escrito («Nadie lo vio desembarcar en la unánime noche»).Cada uno de los dieciséis cuentos reunidos en este libro es, en sí, pieza fundacional y celebración del universo borgeano.
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The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
- By: Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley - editor translator introduction
- Narrated by: Castulo Guerra
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of his life. Brilliantly translated, these stories combine a direct and at times almost colloquial style coupled with Borges's signature fantastic inventiveness. Containing such marvelous tales as "The Congress," "Undr," "The Mirror and the Mask," and "The Rose of Paracelsus," this edition showcases Borges's depth of vision and superb image-conjuring power.
By: Jorge Luis Borges, and others
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A Universal History of Iniquity
- By: Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Castulo Guerra
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal betrayal, and bloodthirsty revenge. Sparkling with the sheer exuberant pleasure of story-telling, this collection marked the emergence of an utterly distinctive literary voice.
By: Jorge Luis Borges, and others
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On Writing
- By: Jorge Luis Borges, Suzanne Jill Levine - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Diego Diment
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Delve into the labyrinth of Jorge Luis Borges’s thoughts on the theory and practice of literature, and learn from one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century not only what a writer does but also what a writer is. For the first time ever, here is a volume that brings together Borges’s wide-ranging reflections on writers, on the canon, on the craft of fiction and poetry, and on translation—an ars poetica of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.
By: Jorge Luis Borges, and others
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On Mysticism
- By: Jorge Luis Borges, Suzanne Jill Levine - editor, Maria Kodama - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Diego Diment
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Jorge Luis Borges immersed himself and his readers in metaphysical fantasies—playing reason against faith, belief against logic. His profound knowledge of eastern religions was an endless source of inspiration for his writing. On Mysticism—edited by Borges’s widow, Maria Kodama—brings together a stunning group of prose pieces and poems that speak to this signature theme of his writing, from some of his most celebrated works to others that appear here in English for the first time.
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Borges in ruins
- By JVictor on 11-28-23
By: Jorge Luis Borges, and others
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Selected Non-Fictions, Volume 3
- By: Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger - editor translator, Esther Allen - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Diego Diment
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
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It will come as a surprise to some that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in the various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and notes on politics and culture—though revered in Latin America and Europe as among his finest work—have scarcely been translated into English.
By: Jorge Luis Borges, and others
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El Aleph [The Aleph]
- By: Jorge Luis Borges
- Narrated by: Gerardo Prat
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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El Aleph es un libro icónico de Jorge Luis Borges, el gran autor argentino admirado por García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Banville y tantos otros escritores contemporáneos. Los cuentos que lo integran son un prodigio de puzles filosóficos, intrigas fantásticas o policíacas y personajes que se graban en la memoria, como Emma Zunz.
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Cuentos completos [Complete Stories]
- By: Jorge Luis Borges
- Narrated by: Gerardo Prat
- Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Todos los cuentos de Borges reunidos en un audiolibro
Poeta, ensayista y narrador, Borges es una de las figuras primordiales de la literatura universal. Ahora se reúnen en este audiolibro todos sus cuentos, uno de los legados más influyentes y deslumbrantes de la literatura occidental.
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Recomendado sin duda.
- By Mr. Hyde on 09-07-20
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Selected Poems
- Volume 2
- By: Jorge Luis Borges, Alexander Coleman - editor
- Narrated by: Juanita Devis
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Though universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems, including scores of poems never previously translated. Edited by Alexander Coleman, it draws from a lifetime's work--from Borges's first published volume of verse, Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923), to his final work, Los conjurados, published just a year before his death in 1986.
By: Jorge Luis Borges, and others
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Illuminations
- Essays and Reflections
- By: Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history.