Labyrinths [Paperback]

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 international bestseller,Borges is arguably the great bridge between modernism and post-modernism in world literature.Borges anticipated postmodernism (deconstruction and so on) and picked up credit as founding father of Latin American magical realism.The classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth centurya true literary sensationwith an introduction by cyber-author William Gibson.