The aleph : including the prose fictions from The maker

The aleph Including the prose fictions from The maker

Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986

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."

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Subjects
Argentina > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Genres
Short stories
Fiction
Published
New York, New York : Penguin Books 2004.
Language
English
Spanish
Main Author
Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986 (author)
Other Authors
Andrew Hurley, 1944- (translator)
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.
Review by Library Journal Review

Two collections of short pieces from throughout Borges's career. These offer a very broad selection of characters and circumstances. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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