by Jorge Luis Borges · Bibliotex, S.L. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481301663
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«El Aleph» is Jorge Luis Borges's collection of short stories published by Bibliotex in hardcover (118 pages, in Spanish).
The story that gives the volume its title has often been read as an anticipation of the internet and the global village: a point from which the entire universe can be seen. The seventeen stories move through labyrinths, libraries, metaphysical speculations, crimes, magical objects and fantastic creatures, with the erudition and narrative play characteristic of Borges.
1999 edition, volume 49 of the collection Las 100 joyas del Milenio, with a prologue by Marcos-Ricardo Barnatán.
For readers of short fiction and philosophical fiction; a gateway to a Spanish American classic of the fantastic.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magical realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
