基本信息出版社：W. W. Norton & Co.
页码：240 页
出版日期：2007年05月
ISBN：0811216993
条形码：9780811216999
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：New Directions Paperbook
外文书名：迷宫

内容简介 Take a new look at Labyrinths, the classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century—a true literary sensation—with cyber-author William Gibson.

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, The Name of the Rose, is, on one level, an elaborate improvisation on Borges' fiction "The Library," which American readers first encountered in the original 1962 New Directions publication of Labyrinths.

This new edition of Labyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges' writing edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (in translations by themselves and others), includes the text of the original edition (as augmented in 1964) as well as Irby's biographical and critical essay, a poignant tribute by André Maurois, and a chronology of the author's life. Borges enthusiast William Gibson has contributed a new introduction bringing Borges' influence and importance into the twenty-first century.
作者简介 William Gibson's first novel Neuromancer (1989) was a worldwide bestseller. Born in 1948 in South Carolina, Gibson is also the author of The New York Times bestseller Pattern Recognition, as well as Idora, Count Zero, Virtual Light, and All Tomorrow's Parties, and has been credited with coining the term "cyberspace."
编辑推荐 Amazon.com Review
If Jorge Luis Borges had been a computer scientist, he probably would have invented hypertext and the World Wide Web.

Instead, being a librarian and one of the world's most widely read people, he became the leading practitioner of a densely layered imaginistic writing style that has been imitated throughout this century, but has no peer (although Umberto Eco sometimes comes close, especially in Name of the Rose).

Borges's stories are redolent with an intelligence, wealth of invention, and a tight, almost mathematically formal style that challenge with mysteries and paradoxes revealed only slowly after several readings. Highly recommended to anyone who wants their imagination and intellect to be aswarm with philosophical plots, compelling conundrums, and a wealth of real and imagined literary references derived from an infinitely imaginary library. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review
Borges anticipated postmodernism (deconstruction and so on&#041 and picked up credit as founding father of Latin American magical realism. -- Colin Waters, The Washington Times

Borges is arguably the great bridge between modernism and post-modernism in world literature. -- David Foster Wallace, The New York Times