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Aleph, El (original 1949; edition 2011)

by Jorge Luis Borges (Author)

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Foi entao que eu vi o Aleph - coleção de alguns brilhantes contos de Borges. ( )
  JuliaBoechat | Mar 30, 2013 |
Borges is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, and in The Aleph he shows his strength in a way that will leave you awestruck: the prose is so rich and evocative it's almost ridiculous, and it almost feels as a force of nature as it sweeps you along. Borges recurring themes - books, labyrinths, mirrors, myth, libraires, storytelling - makes the stories twist and turn and fold back into themselves and each other untill you're dizzy with delight. This truly is fiction fit for the ages. ( )
  Jannes | Nov 8, 2011 |
A masterful collection which contains some of Borges' most brilliant puzzles. A particular highlight are the twin stories 'El Zahir' and 'El Aleph', two stories around the motif of obsession and madness, with a curious undercurrent of sexual longing and jealousy. ( )
  MariaAlhambra | Jul 16, 2011 |
  qfwfq78 | May 31, 2008 |
El Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges, Ilustraciones de Jose Hernandez y homenaje narrativo de Carlos Fuentes, (1994)
  apayabooks | Aug 14, 2006 |
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En Londres, a principios del mes de junio de 1929, el anticuario Joseph Cartaphilus, de Esmirna, ofreció a la princesa de Lucinge los seis volúmenes en cuarto menor (1715-1720) de la Ilíada de Pope.
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Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.

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Originalmente publicada en 1949, esta coleccion reune dieciocho relatos entre los que se encuentra algunos de los mas admirados cuentos de la literatura: "El Aleph," la clasica historia de una resplandeciente esfera en la que confluyen de un modo asombroso todos los tiempos y todos los espacios en el universo; "El Zahir," una fascinante reflexion sobre la obsesion, Borges narra la historia de un objeto que inspira la fascinacion inmediata de todos aquellos que lo ven hasta consumir su atencion y realidad completa; y "El Inmortal," un inquietante viaje a traves de la Ciudad de los Inmortales, un laberintico mundo en el que todo, incluso los edificios y las escaleras, aparece caoticamente irregular o invertido.… (more)

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