El Aleph
The Aleph and Other Stories
latin america
philosophical fiction
The Aleph and Other Stories is a book of short stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The title work, "The Aleph", describes a point in space that contains all other spaces at once. The work also presents the idea of infinite time. Borges writes in the original afterword, dated May 3, 1949, that most of the stories belong to the genre of fantasy, mentioning themes such as identity and immortality. Borges added four new stories to the collection in the 1952 edition, for which he provided a brief postscript to the afterword. The story "La intrusa" was first printed in the third edition of El Aleph (1966) and was later included in the collection El informe de Brodie (1970).â Wikipedia
This 1949 collection contains the following short stories:
⢠El inmortal [The Immortal]
⢠El muerto [The Dead Man]
⢠Los teólogos [The Theologians]
⢠La Historia del Guerrero y la Captiva [Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden]
⢠BiografĂa de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874) [A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)]
⢠Emma Zunz
⢠La casa de Asterión [The House of Asterion]
⢠La otra Muerte [The Other Death]
⢠Deutsches Requiem
⢠El busque de Averroes [Averroesâ Search]
⢠El Zahir [The Zahir]
⢠La escritura del dios [The Writing of the God]
⢠AbenjacĂĄn el BojarĂ, muerto en su laberinto [Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth]
⢠Una leyenda arĂĄbiga" ("Historia de los dos reyes y los dos laberintos, como nota de Burtonâ) [The An Arabic Legend: The Two Kings and Their Two Labyrinths, as recorded by Burton]*
⢠La espera [The Wait]*
⢠El hombre en el umbral [The Man on the Threshold]*
⢠El Aleph [The Aleph]
**These stories were added to the edition published in 1952
