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Published1945
Pages197
Open Library4.4 / 5
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A collection of his short stories in which Borges often uses the labyrinth as a literary device to expound his ideas on all aspects of human life and endeavor. ---------- Contains: [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W)

Literary origin

Country whose literature this title belongs to, based on author tradition —not necessarily where the story is set.

  • Argentina

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Subjects

  • Anachronisms
  • speculative fiction
  • subjective idealism
  • duodecimals
  • aneurysms
  • adjectives
  • hermeticism
  • philanthropy
  • cabala
  • persecution

People

  • Jorge Luis Borges
  • Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • Herbert Ashe
  • Ezra Buckley
  • Jesus Christ
  • Faucigny Lucinge

Times & places

  • 20th century
  • 1935-1947
  • 17th century
  • 1947
  • 1940
  • 1941
  • 1942
  • 1944
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