{"id":48,"date":"2006-09-21T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=48"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:43:01","slug":"labyrinths-selected-stories-and-other-writings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0141184841\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0141184841&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=readingwith0a-20&#038;linkId=337e9456d523483615dc24cf5135bbef\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71DuYfaw0OL._SL1500_-150x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71DuYfaw0OL._SL1500_.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71DuYfaw0OL._SL1500_-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71DuYfaw0OL._SL1500_-768x1178.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71DuYfaw0OL._SL1500_-668x1024.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><b>Jorge Luis Borges (1962)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Borges&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Luis Borges (1962) Borges&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=48\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}