The Aleph and Other Stories,9780142437889

The Aleph and Other Stories

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780142437889
ISBN10: 0142437883
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-07-27
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Andrew Hurley is a professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, where he also teaches in the Translation Program. His many translations include the works of Reinaldo Arenas.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The immortalp. 3
The dead manp. 20
The theologiansp. 26
Story of the warrior and the captive maidenp. 35
A biography of Tadeo Isidore Cruz (1829-1874)p. 40
Emma Zunzp. 44
The house of Asterionp. 51
The other deathp. 54
Deutsches requiemp. 62
Averroes searchp. 69
The zabirp. 79
The writing of the Godp. 89
Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, murdered in his labyrinthp. 95
The two kings and the two labyrinthsp. 105
The waitp. 107
The man on the thresholdp. 112
The alephp. 118
Afterwordp. 134
Foreword : for Leopold Lugonesp. 139
The makerp. 140
Dreamtigersp. 143
A dialog about a dialogp. 144
Tocnailsp. 145
Covered mirrorsp. 146
Argumentum ornithologicump. 148
The captivep. 149
The mountebankp. 151
Delia Elena San Marcop. 153
A dialog between dead menp. 154
The plotp. 157
A problemp. 158
The yellow rosep. 160
The witnessp. 161
Martin Fierrop. 163
Mutationsp. 165
Parable of Cervantes and the Quixotep. 166
Paradiso, XXXI, 108p. 167
Parable of the palacep. 169
Everything and nothingp. 171
Ragnarokp. 174
Inferno, I, 32p. 176
Borges and Ip. 177
One exactitude and sciencep. 181
In memoriam, J.F.K.p. 182
Afterwardp. 183
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