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"The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" (original Spanish title: "Historia de los dos reyes y los dos laberintos") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in February 1936. [1] It was later included in El Aleph under the title "Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos".
Labyrinths (1962, 1964, 1970, 1983) is a collection of short stories and essays by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett .
The labyrinth is a recurring motif throughout the stories. It is used as a metaphor to represent a variety of things: the overwhelmingly complex nature of worlds and the systems that exist on them, human enterprises, the physical and mental aspects of humans, and abstract concepts such as time.
"Ibn Hakkan al-Bokhari, Dead in His Labyrinth" Sur August 1951 "Una leyenda arábiga (Historia de los dos reyes y los dos laberintos, como nota de Burton)" "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" El Hogar 16. June 1939 "La espera" "The Wait" La Nación. 27. August 1950 "El hombre en el umbral" "The Man on the Threshold" La Nación 20. April 1952
Jacket of Norman Thomas Di Giovanni's English translation of Crónicas de Bustos Domecq (Dutton edition, 1979, ISBN 0-525-47548-6).. H. Bustos Domecq was the original credited author of the parodic detective stories in Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi, 1942 (translated 1981 as Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi) and Dos fantasías memorables, 1946 (Two memorable fancies).
In his 1984 novel The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (Original Portuguese title O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis), José Saramago's protagonist, Ricardo Reis, spends much time considering the work The God of the Labyrinth by Herbert Quain. [2] The fictional anthologist who curates Ana Menendez's Adios, Happy Homeland! (2011) is named Herberto ...
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" is a form of literary criticism, but through the medium of fantasy, irony, and humor.His narrator/reviewer considers Menard's fragmentary Quixote (which is line-for-line identical to the original) to be much richer in allusion than Miguel de Cervantes' "original" work because Menard's must be considered in light of world events since 1602.
Borges' fictitious writer Nils Runeberg presents to the world three versions of Judas Iscariot using his two books.. In the first version of Kristus och Judas, Runeberg says that it was Judas who was the reflection of Jesus in the human world, and as Jesus was our savior sent from heaven, Judas took up the onus of being the human who led Jesus down the path of redemption.