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The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) Paperback – July 27, 2004

by Jorge Luis Borges (Author), Andrew Hurley (Translator)
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Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s “killer,” and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house.  This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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    5.1 x 0.61 x 7.7 inches
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"He more than anyone renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists. Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, José Donoso, and Mario Vargas Llosa have all acknowledged their debt to him." —J.M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books

"He has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place." —John Updike

 

About the Author

Jorges Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and educated in Europe. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of our time, he published many collections of poems, essays and short stories, before his death in Geneva in June 1986. In 1961 Borges shared the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett. The Ingram Merrill Foundation granted him its Annual Literary Award in 1966 for his "outstanding contribution to literature." In 1971 Columbia University awarded him the first of many degrees of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa that he was to receive from the English-speaking world. In 1971 he received the fifth biennial Jerusalem Prize and in 1973 was given the Alfonso Reyes Prize, one of Mexico's most prestigious cultural awards. In 1980 he shared the Cervantes Prize (the Spanish world's highest literary accolade) with Gerardo Diego. Borges was Director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973. In a tribute to Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa wrote: "His is a world of clear, pure, and at the same time unusual ideas...expressed in words of great directness and restraint. [He] was a superb storyteller. One reads most of Borges' tales with the hypnotic interest usually reserved for reading detective fiction..."

Andrew Hurley is a translator of numerous works of literature, criticism, history, and memoir. He is professor emeritus at the University of Puerto Rico.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; Reprint edition (July 27, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0142437883
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0142437889
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 12 and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.1 x 0.61 x 7.7 inches
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges KBE (/ˈbɔːrhɛs/; Spanish: [ˈxorxe ˈlwis ˈborxes] 24 August 1899 - 14 June 1986), was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature". His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion. Literary critics have described Borges as Latin America's monumental writer.

Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Grete Stern (1904-1999) (http://www.me.gov.ar/efeme/jlborges/1951-1960.html) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Carlo
5.0 out of 5 stars Aleph
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2017
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I bought it for the "Aleph" but, and, I also liked all the other stories. My first approach to Borges. Stimulating reading, well developed characters with some unexpected twists. I enjoyed it very much.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent collection.
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From the brilliant mind of Borges.
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Cameron
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2014
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This is my first Borges book, and I'm rather impressed. I don't read a lot of short fiction, but this is very good.
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4.0 out of 5 stars This is fantastic in more ways than one
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2015
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This is fantastic in more ways than one. It is not science fiction but more like Twilight Zone. It will make you stop and think a lot. The cover is a perfect one for what is inside.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Seller did fine with shipping
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2014
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Read the book, for a book club, not a fan of this author. Seller did fine with shipping, no problems.
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5.0 out of 5 stars good and fast
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good and fast
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Excellent. Challenging stories which raised my juniors and seniors to the next level in Latin American lit and philosophy.
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Very fun book! A different look on some of the classical stories!
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SURY
3.0 out of 5 stars over-imaginative
Reviewed in India on October 25, 2021
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The author is a famous writer and has got many awards to his credit. So, I dare not write a ‘literary’ review. Yet, after reading the book, I cannot keep quiet. I will jot down my impressions and call it quits.
There were no blogs or Internet in the days that this book was written. The short stories (many are less than half a page) of this book fit the description of blogs better. Some, in fact, are not stories at all, but musings.
One thing remarkable about the author is that the author is highly imaginative; irrationally so at tmes. Past, present, future, reality, the unreal, philosophy, mysticism, existing, non-existing, everything is jumbled up. Again and again, you can see that certain themes are repeated. The author seems to be obsessed by labyrinths. Every alternate story (not literally) has a labyrinth. Frankly, after a while one really gets bored. Thankfully, it is not a thick book.
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Esteban Portero Matarín
4.0 out of 5 stars Buen libro, pero comprad en librerías locales no en Amazon.
Reviewed in Spain on March 5, 2021
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Buen libro, pero comprad en librerías locales no en Amazon.
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Hylas Maliki
5.0 out of 5 stars Master of the twist
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2020
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I've never come across a writer like this before. This book and Fictions are historic creations. I think Chekhov has competition for greatest short story writer of all time.
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John Fordham
5.0 out of 5 stars Genius
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2019
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Brilliant book and brilliant writer.
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Names don't matter ;-)
5.0 out of 5 stars for a friend
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2013
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i was asked by a friend to order on their behalf as they had read it before and highly rec it
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