Books like Labyrinths
Stories, essays and parables that fold in on themselves, infinite libraries, forking paths, mirrors and labyrinths of time and identity, gathered in the classic English selection of Borges.
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Ficciones
Labyrinthine stories that fold in on themselves: a library containing every possible book, a garden of forking paths, a man who cannot forget anything and an encyclopedia that invents a world.
Invisible Cities
Marco Polo describes fifty-five impossible cities to Kublai Khan, and each city is a meditation on memory, desire, language, and death.
Cosmicomics
The history of the universe told by Qfwfq, a being who was there for the Big Bang, the formation of the Moon and the first creatures to crawl onto land, in comic cosmic fables.
Nazi Literature in the Americas
A fake reference work of thirty invented right-wing Americas writers, their books and journals and enemies, by the author who turned bibliography into menace.
Sophie's World
Fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen starts receiving anonymous letters that walk her, one philosopher at a time, through the history of Western thought, and discovers that she may be inside someone else's book.
Foucault's Pendulum
Three Milan editors invent a conspiracy theory as a joke, linking the Templars to every secret society in history, and then discover that some people believe it.
When We Cease to Understand the World
Linked narratives enter the interior lives of 20th-century scientists and mathematicians at the edge of what knowledge can bear.
Bliss Montage
Eight surreal stories about women in flight from the past: one lives in a house with her husband and all of her ex-boyfriends, another takes a drug that makes her disappear.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
In alternating chapters, a data encryptor in Tokyo is caught up in a corporate and underworld conspiracy, while a newcomer in a walled town at the end of the world reads old dreams from the skulls of unicorns.
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Stories featuring old vampires who quench their thirst with lemons in an Italian grove, seagulls that steal things from a boy's future, American presidents reincarnated as horses and girls in a Japanese silk mill turning into silkworms.
The New York Trilogy
Three linked novellas about detectives in New York, a writer mistaken for a private eye, a man hired to watch a stranger and a critic sorting a vanished friend's manuscripts, which dissolve the line between detective and case.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
A prophet comes down from ten years alone on a mountain, convinced that God is dead, to teach the crowds that humanity is something to be overcome, in a book of speeches, parables and songs.