The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths

The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths

"The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" is a short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in June 1939. It deals with a number of Borgesian themes: labyrinths, supposed obscure folk tales, Arabia, and Islam. This is one of the shorter short stories in world literature. A Babylonian king orders his subjects to build him a labyrinth "so confused and so subtle that the most prudent men would not venture to enter it, and those who did would lose their way." When an Arab king visited his court, the king of Babylonia told him to enter the labyrinth in order to mock him. The...
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Author:Jorge Luis Borges
Genre:Fiction
Year published:1939
Number of editions:6

Author of The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
August 24, 1899 - June 14, 1986
Birthplace:Buenos Aires
Education:Collège Calvin

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature". His most famous books, Ficciones and The Aleph , are compilations of...
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Additional works by Jorge Luis Borges
BookCopyright DateGenre
El Aleph Short story
Ficciones 1944 Fiction
Ein deutsches Requiem
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
The Book of Sand
The Aleph 1949 Short story
The Library of Babel
Shakespeare's Memory 1983 Speculative fiction
A Universal History of Infamy 1935 Speculative fiction
Borges and I Poetry
Labyrinths 1962 Fiction
This Craft of Verse 1999
The Book of Imaginary Beings 1969 Speculative fiction
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory 1998 Speculative fiction
Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi 1981 Speculative fiction
Brodie's Report 1970 Speculative fiction
La Cifra
library of Babel
Evaristo Carriego
En voz de Borges
Twenty-four conversations with Borges
Ultimas conversaciones con Borges
Inquisiciones
Tiempo Falto
auteur et autres textes =
ensayo autobiográfico
Laberintos
Literaturas germánicas medievales
Nueva antologia personal
Cosmogonías
Obras Completas 3
Veinticinco agosto 1983
Prosa completa
Borges na luz de Borges
Stories from Around the World
Congress
Other inquisitions, 1937-1952
rosa profunda
bugie della parola
La Muerte y La Brujula
otro, el mismo
círculo secreto
Las Palmeras Salvajes
Cervantes y el Quijote
La intrusa y otros cuentos
obsesiones de Borges
Rosa y azul
Venticinque agosto 1983 e altri racconti inediti
aleph borgiano
Libro del Cielo y del Infierno
Norah
Autres
lenguaje de Buenos Aires
Livre de préfaces
Valoración de Jorge Luis Borges en la comunidad judía de Argentina
Breve Ant. De Ctos. Fantasticos
Entretiens avec alina diaconu
memoria de Shakespeare
Chroniques de Bustos Domecq
orilleros
Siete Noches
Eine und die Vielen
Zwielicht und Pomp
Im Labyrinth
Discusión
Los Orilleros El Paraiso De Los Creyentes
oro de los tigres
Textos recobrados, 1919-1929
Atlas
Borges, a reader
Diálogo con Borges
advenimiento
Museo
Nuevos Cuentos de Bustos Domecq
Antologia de La Literatura Fantastica
Cuentos Memorables
El Tamano de Mi Esperanza
La Rosa Profunda
Los Mejores Cuentos Policiales 2
Seven nights
modelo para la muerte
Poemas
Borges oral
Borges para millones
El Hacedor
Kabbala und Tango. Essays 1930 - 1932. ( Werke in 20 Bänden, 2)
La biblioteca de babel
Livre de Sable, Le
Borges, el memorioso
Crónicas de Bustos Domecq
gold of the tigers
Introducción a la literatura inglesa
DOS Fantasias Memorables - Una Modelo Para La
Gesammelte Werke, 9 Bde., Bd.1, Essays
Narraciones
El libro de los seres imaginarios
univers de Borges
Cristo en la cruz y otros poemas
Das Handwerk des Dichters
L'or des tigres
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