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Homeric tone, blood and vengeance, the blending of murder and metaphysics, and an interplay of appearances and apparitions in which reality and illusion are almost indistinguishable. It is not one of Borges' greatest stories, but many of the familiar elements of his work are here: arcane knowledge, characters that emerge from some combination of mythology and scholarship, images of labyrinths, a lightly satirical A king flees the ghost of his vizier, whom he has killed, taking refuge in a labyrinth he builds on the moors of Cornwall.īut the ghost, or what seems to be a ghost, catches up with him, and the king is murdered within his own hiding place. Luis Borges, is as good a place as any to start an appreciation of one of the most remarkable writers of our century. He story "Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth," roughly in the middle of this marvelous new collection of stories by Jorge

Featured Author: Jorge Luis Borges, with news and reviews from the archives of The New York Times.

SeptemBOOKS OF THE TIMES 'Collected Fictions': Savoring a Borges Blend of Imaginings The stories included are unabridged.'Collected Fictions': Savoring a Borges Blend of Imaginings Please note: This audio edition includes selections from the paperback edition. Selections include: "Borges and I", "The Garden of Forking Paths", "Man on Pink Corner", "The Library of Babel", "Death and the Compass", "The Lottery in Babylon", "The Maker", "The Zahir", "The Encounter", "The Circular Ruins", "Shakespeare's Memory", "August 25, 1983", "The Immortal", "Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote", "The Story from Rosendo Juarez", "The Aleph", and "Dreamtigers".

Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius. These enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language.

A selection of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered in this audiobook, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century.