Labyrinths

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This volume was first published clothbound by New Directions in 1962; it was issued in an augmented edition as New Directions Paperbook 186 in 1964. Reissued as New Directions Paperbook 1066 in 2007 with a new preface, “An Invitation by William Gibson.” A Postscript by James E. Irby has been added to his original Introduction, and numerous textual corrections in the translations have also been made by the editors Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby in this 2007 reissue.

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Labyrinths, Selected Stories & Other Writings, by Jorge Luis Borges, has been translated and published by agreement with Emecé Editores, S. A. Buenos Aires, Argentina. All selections here included and translated into English have been taken from the following volumes originally published in Spanish by Emecé: Ficciones (1956), El Aleph (1957), Discussión (1957), Otras Inquisiciones (1960) and El Hacedor (1960).

We also acknowledge permission to reprint those translations into English here included which have previously appeared in magazines and books, as follows: translated by Donald A. Yates: “The Garden of Forking Paths”: Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review, Spring 1958; translated by James E. Irby: “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” New World Writing No. 18, April 1961, and “The Waiting,” Americas, June 1959; translated by John M. Fein: “The Lottery in Babylon,” Prairie Schooner, Fall 1959; translated by Harriet de Onis: “The Secret Miracle,” Spanish Stories & Tales, Pocket Books (PL 40) 1956; translated by Julian Palley: “Deutsches Requiem,” New World Writing No. 14, 1958 (Property of the Rutgers Translators); translated by Dudley Fitts: “The Zahir,” Partisan Review, February 1950; translated by Anthony Kerrigan: “The Fearful Sphere of Pascal,” Noonday No. 3, 1959.

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