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Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges

With a NEW Introduction by William Gibson; Edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby
Tribute by Andre Maurois; Afterword by James E. Irby

Take a new look at Labyrinths, the classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century -- a true literary sensation -- with cyber-author William Gibson

"Borges is arguably the great bridge between modernism and post-modernism in world literature." --David Foster Wallace, The New York Times

"In abandoning literary modernism when he did, Borges anticipated postmodernism (deconstruction and so on) and picked up credit as founding father of Latin American magical realism." --Colin Waters, The Washington Times

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 labeled Borgesian. Umberto Eco's inter- national bestseller, 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 Andre 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 twenty-first century.

WILLIAM GIBSON's first novel, Neuromancer (1989), was a worldwide bestseller. Born in 1948 in South Carolina, Gibson is also the author of New York Times bestseller Pattern Recognition, as well as Idora, Count Zero, Virtual Light, and All Tomorrow's Parties, and has been credited with coining the term "cyberspace." Also from New Directions by Jorge Luis Borges: Seven Nights, literary lectures translated by Eliot Weinberger, intro. by Alastair Reid, ISBN 0-8112-0905-9; Everything and Nothing, prose, an ND Bibelot, intro. by Donald A. Yates, ISBN 0-8112-1400-1.

Date of publication: May 2007