The Garden of Forking Paths
Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A Yates, Andrew Hurley, James E. IrbyThe seven pieces in The Garden Of Forking Paths demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century.
“In resounding the note of the marvelous last struck in English by Wells and Chesterson, in permitting infinity to enter and distort his imagination, [Borges] has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place.” - John Updike
Jorge Luis Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the surreal and literal labyrinth of books and the iconography of eternal return. These ficciones offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his scepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. To enter the worlds in The Garden of Forking Paths is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.
"These brief ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly; then they throb with uncanny and haunting power.” - The Atlantic Monthly
“Borges’s composed, carefully wrought, gnarled style is at once the means of his art and its object—his way of ordering and giving meaning to the bizarre and terrifying world he creates: it is a brilliant, burnished instrument, and it is quite adequate to the extreme demands his baroque imagination makes of it . . . . Absolutely and most vividly original.” - Saturday Review