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The Aleph : including the prose fictions from The Maker

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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.

Translated with an introduction by Andrew Hurley.

Language: English

Pages: 215

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin

Release: August 29, 2022

The Aleph : including the prose fictions from The Maker

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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.

Translated with an introduction by Andrew Hurley.

Language: English

Pages: 215

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin

Release: August 29, 2022

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