aleph and other stories
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author sort: Jorge Luis Borges & Andrew Hurley
authors: [Jorge Luis Borges] [Andrew Hurley]
date: 2018 Jun 02
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languages: eng
published: 2004 Jul
publisher: Penguin Books
tags: Fiction Literary Short Stories (Single Author) Classics Literary Collections Caribbean & Latin American
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Summary:
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.