num_pages: 224
description: Alternate cover edition — ISBN 13: 9780141183831Full 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.
language: English
title: The Aleph and Other Stories
titlecomplete: The Aleph and Other Stories
characters: Cruz
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Short Stories, Philosophy, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Literature, Latin American Literature, Classics, Fantasy
ratings_count: 39681
publisher: Penguin