Pdf jorge borges aleph angelo sciacovelli academia. Anyone who gazes into it can see everything in the universe from every angle simultaneously, without distortion, overlapping or confusion. The aleph is a short story by the argentine writer and poet jorge luis borges. I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space.
The translation by norman thomas di giovanni in collaboration with the author can be found at phinnwebb ii. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, borges returns again and again to his themes. We hope you will agree when you leaf through the book of aleph 5. Os trogloditas, infantis na barbarie, nao me ajudaram a sobreviver ou. Pdf jorge luis borges, deutsches requiem felix vazquez. The mirror troubled the depths of a corridor in a country. Jorge luis borges a minor collection of works contents.
First published in september 1945, it was reprinted in the short story collection, the aleph and other stories, in 1949, and revised by the author in 1974. The library of babel death and the compass theme of the traitor and hero three versions of judas the babylon lottery funes, the memorious the secret miracle the approach to almutasim the garden of forking paths the sect of the phoenix an examination of the work of herbert quain. The aleph begins with the narrator, borges, recalling that on the february morning of beatriz viterbos death, a billboard advertisement in the plaza constitucion was being changed. Borges and i museum on exactitude in science in memoriam, j. Collected fictions of jorge luis borges posthegemony. The story continues the theme of infinity found in several of borges. Reclam leipzig reclams universalbibliothek michaela rated borgss liked it jan 11, published. We are especially thrilled with the range, and reach of the books on the listgreat poetry, narrative nonfiction, fiction, meditations on the most important issues of the day, and a lot else besides. Borges stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. The aleph 1949 the immortal the dead man the theologians story of the warrior and the captive maiden a biography of tadeo isidoro cruz 18291874. Jorge luis borges o god, i could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space. Afterword in praise of darkness 1969 foreword the ethnographer pedro salvadores legend. In borges story, the aleph is a point in space that contains all other points.