The Aleph
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.
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight the author 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.
| Автор | Jorge Luis Borges |
|---|---|
| Страници | 224 |
| Корица | мека |
| Език | английски |
| Година | 2000 |
| Дата на получаване | 6.12.2024 г. |
| Издателство | PENGUIN BOOKS |
| ID на книга | 56624052 |
| Поредица | Penguin Modern Classics |
| ISBN | 9780241540527 |
| Категории | Други Книги на английски език |
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