THE ALEPH (SHORT STORY COLLECTION)

'''The Aleph and Other Stories''' (Spanish:'''El Aleph''', 1949) is a book of short stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The title work, ''The Aleph'', describes an artifact (el Aleph) that can reveal the entire universe at once. The work also presents the idea of infinite time.
The book itself comprises many short stories that tie to Borges's leitmotif of the recapitulation of experience. Borges believed that there was nothing new, and that all present-day experiences are analogs of experiences already lived. Borges's central premise was that while the details may differ, there will always be an essential thread tying any so-called discovery, revelation, et cetera, that one made hundreds or thousands of years before. ''The Aleph'', taken from the Hebrew letter "A", provided the ultimate example of this phenomenon. In Borges's description, it was that point in the universe that contains everything in the universe in a single place. It summed up Borges's belief that all human experiences were not only linked, but identical.

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★ ''The Immortal'' (''Los inmortales'')

★ ''The Dead Man'' (''El Muerto'')

★ ''The Theologians'' (''Los teólogos'')

★ ''Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden'' (''Historia del guerrero y la cautiva'')

★ ''A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)'' (''Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)'')

★ ''Emma Zunz'' (''Emma Zunz'')

★ ''The House of Asterion'' (''La casa de Asterión'')

★ ''The Other Death'' (''La otra muerte'')

★ ''Deutches Requiem'' (''Deutsches réquiem'')

★ ''Averroes's Search'' (''La busca de Averroes'')

★ ''The Zahir'' (''El zahir'')

★ ''The Writing of the God'' (''La escritura del Dios'')

★ ''Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labryinth' Added to the 1952 edition of ''The Aleph'' (''Abenjacán el Bojarí, muerto en su laberinto'')

★ ''The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths'' adf (''Una leyenda arábiga'' (''Historia de los dos reyes y los dos laberintos, como nota de Burton'') )

★ ''The Wait'' adf (''La espera'')

★ ''The Man on the Threshold'' adf (''El hombre en el umbral'')

★ ''The Aleph'' (''El Aleph'')

See also

★ Bibliography of Jorge Luis Borges

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