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Labyrinths: Popular Penguins

By Jorge Luis Borges
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Labyrinths: Popular Penguins is a collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges that explores complex themes such as infinity, identity, and the nature of reality. Through intricate narratives, Borges creates philosophical mazes that challenge the reader's perception of time and consciousness. The book is a profound journey into the mind, offering a fascinating blend of metaphysical puzzles and literary craftsmanship.
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This collection may appeal to you if you're intrigued by complex narratives and literary puzzles, as it features a blend of short stories and essays that explore themes of philosophy, identity, and the notion of infinite possibilities. Readers who enjoy delving into the intricacies of language and exploring the boundaries between fiction and reality will find it particularly captivating. Jorge Luis Borges is renowned for his imaginative storytelling and profound insights into the nature of human understanding.

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Labyrinths: Popular Penguins

Lets you enter timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence. This title explores the enigmas of time, identity and imagination.

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Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence. To read Labyrinths is to glide through time, space, mythology and philosophy, as Borges' characters struggle towards devastating discovery. His essays and brief tantalising parables explore the enigmas of time, identity and imagination.

Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143566342

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 August 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 113.0mm

Height: 181.0mm

Weight: 163g

Pages: 288

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir General Fiction Jorge Luis Borges Non-Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics

About the Author

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and was educated in Europe. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of our time, he published many collections of poems, essays and short stories before his death in Geneva in 1986. He was director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973. Mario Vargas Llosa, in a tribute to Borges, has written- 'His is a world of clear, pure, and at the same time unusual ideas expressed in words of great directness and restraint. He was a superb storyteller. One reads most of Borges' tales with the hypnotic interest usually reserved for reading detective fiction...'

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