The aleph Including the prose fictions from The maker
Book - 2004
Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Maya priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a man awaiting his assassin, and a woman plotting vengeance on her father's "killer."
Saved in:
- Subjects
- Genres
- Short stories
Fiction - Published
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New York, New York :
Penguin Books
2004.
- Language
- English
Spanish - Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- "Originally published by Emece Editores, Buenos Aires, as El aleph. This translation by Andrew Hurley first published in the volume, Collected Fictions (Viking Penguin, New York, 1998)"--Title page verso. Translated from the Spanish.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 210 pages ; 20 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9780142437889
- The Aleph (1949). The Immortal ; The dead man ; The theologians ; Story of the warrior and the captive maiden ; A biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874) ; Emma Zunz ; The house of Asterion ; The other death ; Deutsches requiem ; Averroës' search ; The Zahir ; The writing of the God ; Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, murdered in his labyrinth ; The two kings and the two labyrinths ; The wait ; The man on the threshold ; The Aleph ; Afterword
- The maker (1960). Foreword: for Leopold Lugones ; The maker ; Dreamtigers ; A dialog about a dialog ; Toenails ; Covered mirrors ; Argumentum Ornithologicum ; The captive ; The mountebank ; Delia Elena San Marco ; A dialog between dead men ; The plot ; A problem ; The yellow rose ; The witness ; Martín Fierro ; Mutations ; Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote ; Paradiso, XXXI, 108 ; Parable of the palace ; Everything and nothing ; Ragnarök ; Inferno, I ; Borges and I
- Museum. On exactitude and science ; In memoriam J.F.K ; Afterword.
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