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Continue Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges' most fully realized human characters. With supernatural understanding, he takes us into the minds of unrerecious Nazis, imprisoned Mayan priests, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting revenge on her father's killer, and a man waiting for his killer in a guest house in Buenos Aires. This volume also contains obsessively brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity, collected in Maker, which Borges wrote as a lack of vision and public fame began to undermine his sense of self. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classical literature in the English-speaking world. With over 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics is a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and in various genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts reinforced by the introduction and notes of outstanding scholars and contemporary authors, as well as modern translations of award-winning translators. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jorge Borges was educated as an English governess in 1899 and later studied in Europe. He returned to Buenos Aires in 1921, where he helped create several avant-garde literary periodicals. In 1955, after the fall of Juan Peron, whom he strongly opposed, he was appointed Director of the Argentine National Library. Together with Samuel Beckett, he was awarded the $10,000 International Publishers Award in 1961, helping him to establish himself as one of the most outstanding writers in the world. Borges regularly taught and lectured throughout the United States and Europe. His ideas had a profound impact on writers all over the Western world and on recent developments in literary and critical theory. A prolific author of essays, short stories and plays, Borges's problems are perhaps most clear in his stories. He regarded people's desire to understand the incomprehensible world as fiction; hence his fiction is metaphysical and based on what he called the aesthetics of intelligence. Some critics call it the mysticism of intelligence. Dreamers (1960) is considered a masterpiece. The central image in Borges's work is the labyrinth, the mental and poetic structure, which he considered the universe in miniature, which is built by people and therefore believe that they control, but which, nevertheless, traps them. Despite Borges' belief that people could not understand the chaotic world, he constantly tried to do so in his letter. Much of his work focuses on people's efforts to find the center of the labyrinth, symbolic to achieve an understanding of their place in the mysterious universe. In later works such as The Golden Of the Tigers, Borges wrote about his lifelong blindness and how it affected his perception of the world and himself as a Borges died in 1986. (Author) Andrew Hurley (Introduction) and 1 more Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges' most fully realized human characters. With supernatural understanding, he takes us into the minds of unrerecious Nazis, imprisoned Mayan priests, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting revenge on her father's killer, and a man waiting for his killer in a guest house in Buenos Aires. This volume also contains obsessively brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity, collected in Maker, which Borges wrote as a lack of vision and public fame began to undermine his sense of self. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classical literature in the English-speaking world. With over 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics is a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and in various genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts reinforced by the introduction and notes of outstanding scholars and contemporary authors, as well as modern translations of award-winning translators. Price $17.00 $15.64 Publisher Penguin Group Publish Date July 27, 2004 Pages 224 Dimensions 6.7 x 7.7 x 0.59 in 0.39 lb English Type Paperback EAN / UPC 9780142437889 Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and educated in Europe. One of the most famous writers of our time, he published numerous collections of poems, essays and short stories, before his death in June 1986. In 1961, Borges shared the International Publishers Award with Samuel Beckett. The Ingram Merrill Foundation awarded him an annual literary award in 1966 for his outstanding contribution to literature. In 1971, Columbia University awarded him the first of many degrees of the doctor of literature, honoris causa, that he had to receive from the English-speaking world. In 1971, he received the fifth biennial Jerusalem Prize, and in 1973 he received the Alfonso Reyes Award, one of Mexico's most prestigious cultural awards. In 1980, he shared the Cervantes Prize (the highest literary award in the Spanish world) with Gerardo Diego. Borges was director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 to 1973. In tribute to Borgeus, Mario Vargas Llosa wrote: His world of clear, pure and at the same time unusual ideas... expressed in words of great directness and restraint. He was an excellent storyteller. One reads most of Borges's tales with a hypnotic interest, usually reserved for reading detective fiction... Andrew Hurley is the translator of numerous works of literature, criticism, history and memoirs. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Puerto Rico. He had more than anyone repaired the language of fiction and, thus paved the way for a remarkable generation of Spanish-American Spanish-American Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Jose Donoso and Mario Vargas Llosa admitted their duty to him. --J.M. Coetzee, New York Review of BooksOn rose fiction from a flat land where most of our novels and short stories still occur. --John Updike World Lit in VIEW LIST (106 BOOKS) El Aleph First editionAuthorjorge Luis BorgesCountryACountryArgentinaLanguageSpanishPublisherEditorial Losada, Buenos AiresPublication date1949 and Other Stories (Spanish: El aleph, 1949) is a book of short stories by Argentine writer Luis Borges. The title work, Aleph, describes a point in space that contains all other spaces at the same time. The work also represents the idea of infinite time. Borges writes in the original afterword, dated May 3, 1949 (Buenos Aires), that most of the stories belong to the fantasy genre, mentioning such themes as identity and immortality. Borges added four new stories to the collection in the 1952 edition, for which he presented a brief postscript to the afterword. Contents The Immortal (El inmortal) The Dead Man (El Muerto) (Los teólogos) Story of the Warrior and the Captive (Historia del guerrero y la cautiva) A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874) (Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829–1874)) The House of Asterion (La casa de Asterión) Death (La otra muerte) Deutsches Requiem (Deutsches réquiem) Averroes's Search (La busca de Averroes) (El zahir) (La escritura del Dios) Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth [1] (Abenjacán el Bojarí, muerto en su laberinto) The Two Kings and the Two [1] (Una leyenda arábiga (Historia de los dos reyes y los dos laberintos, como nota de Burton) ) The Wait [1] (La espera) The Man on the Threshold [1] (El hombre en el umbral) The Aleph (El Aleph) See also Novels portal Bibliography of Jorge Luis Borges Notes ^ a b c d Added to the 1952 edition of The Aleph This storybook is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.vte extracted from (short_story_collection) oldid'981741769 © 1996-2014, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates All that can drive a person crazy if that person can't manage to put it out of his mind map of Hungary! Obsession is the unifying theme of virtually all of these stories, which is entirely appropriate because I'm starting to be a trifle obsessed with myself. This is perhaps the most central place in zahir.I have collected fiction (with copious translator notes), but I'm splitting my review of what's in its components listed in the order of publication: Collected Fiction - all reviews. It is the fourth, pu All that can drive a person crazy if this man manage to put it out of your mind -- even... Map of Hungary! Obsession is the unifying theme of virtually all of these stories, which is entirely appropriate because I'm starting to be a trifle obsessed with myself. This is perhaps the most central place in zahir.I have collected fiction (with copious translator notes), but I'm splitting my review of what's in its components listed in the order of publication: Collected Fiction - all reviews. This is the fourth, published in 1949. Now the familiar Borges trails are also abundant here: time, reality and dreams, immortality, infinity, mirrors and opposites, labyrinths, recursion and circularity, memory. At this stage of the work, although Borja collected fiction, I feel a deep connection. There is still a beguiling, mysterious layer, but it is not impenetrable by any means, although I know very well that I am nowhere near as erudite as Borges, so although I know many of the great literary names it falls to, I am not necessarily intimately familiar with their works. Immortal 6 What is the price of immortality? And what a discovery premise: the story is rarely a dealer's book, found by a princess, in a copy of Ilyad! The very story of a mysterious, obsessive quest to find the secret city of the Immortals.The journey includes Roman soldiers; Escape Loneliness; Fear of others Unusual architecture Find a way through a maze of caves, stairs, doors and several rooms; sinister troglodytes, references to the Odyssey, and many reflections on life, death, mortality and the nature of time. It sounds like a checklist of cliches, but in the hands of this master narrator, it's fresh, beautiful, insightful - and disturbing. The city was found - abandoned and partially destroyed. It's beautiful and impressive, but somehow sinister - not a simple combination to describe: This place is the work of the gods... The gods who built this place died... The gods who built this place were crazy... Others joined the impression of the great antiquity: the impression of lawlessness, the feeling of oppression and horror, the feeling of complex irrationality... Maze is a house built specifically to confuse men ... Architecture had no purpose. Its very existence pollutes the past and the future and somehow endangers the stars. (spoiler view) Hardly sociable, primitive troglodytes turn out to be immortals who left their city to live in a labyrinth. The one with whom the traveler is friends, and calls Argos after the dog in the Odyssey, turns out to be Homer himself. This kind of evolutionary regression is explored in two stories in Brody's report: The Gospel according to Mark and Brody's eponymous report. (hide spoiler) Philosophical aspects are mainly related to the essence of opposites, and therefore, ways and forms of immortality: A wheel that has neither without starting, each life is a consequence of a previous life and the product of the next ... Over an infinitely long period of time, all things happen to all men ... Heads and tails are usually even out... If we look at it this way, all our actions are simple, though not important. Worse, the notion of the world as an accurate compensation system... made them immune to pity. For mortals, things are different: Death... makes men precious and pathetic... any action they do may be their last... Everything in the mortal world has the value of the irreplaceable and the conditional. The Dead ManThe story is summed up in the introductory sentence: a low-life city bully becomes a rider and leader of a group of smugglers. His obsession is gaining momentum. It's more than 1/3 through Collected Fiction, and I think it's the first female character who deserves more than a sentence (although it's not a very enviable role). Of course, it's really about death. If you're almost dead anyway, does it matter what happens just before? TheologiansA is a pretty dry piece that benefits through. This applies to two sects, each of which thinks the other is heretical, exacerbated by a pair of believers in doctrine, and one hero is obsessed with gaining intellectual upper hand. Are they allies (the same) or adversaries (opposites)? If each person is two men, and... real one another, one in heaven... our actions cast an upside-down reflection, so that by doing bad things on earth, good things can happen in heaven! I'm not sure I'm going to stand in court. (spoiler view) The final revelation is repeated in Borjas: two men are the same man. (hide spoiler) The story of a warrior and captiveI native choice or necessity? Contrasting stories are essentially two sides of the same story? It's only three pages long, and the story starts halfway. These are echoes of the prisoner and the ethnographer (considered in ). Biography of Tadeo Ishidoro CruzLove life... actually consists of one moment - the moment when a person knows forever more who he is. There is a lot of historical background in the translator's notes and the conclusion echoes that the theologians (kind of spoiler) He realized that the other man was himself (hide spoiler) Emma Zunz 6 woman (finally), with clear inspiration from Kafka, although Borges says in the afterword that the plot was given to him by a woman (without specifying whether it meant to be fact or fiction). It is an irresistible, perverted and tragic story of loss and obsessive vengeance, leading to thoughts of justice and truth. Like a tree falling into a deserted forest, if the convict does not know and does not understand what he is guilty of, does it matter - is the sentence valid? See Kafka in the Colony for a different approach to the same A similar idea is in of Borges, which is in ArtificesThen what? An incredible story can convince everyone if the substance is true. Her shame was real, her hatred was real... all that was false were circumstances, time, and one or two correct names. Plot summary: (kind of spoiler) Emma accuses her employer of shaming her father, which leads him to suicide. She is young, virgin, with almost pathological fear of men, which makes her plan particularly painful for her. She picks up a man (He was a tool for Emma as she was for him - but she was used for fun while he was used for revenge) and then goes to his boss, shoots at him, and claims it was self-defense because he had just raped her. She tells him why she's doing it, but it's probably too late for him to hear and understand. Her story is believed, and the fact of revenge releases her guilt. (hide spoiler) House of Asterion 6Sun queen lives a strange and solitary life in an empty house like no other, with many doors and corridors. The strangeness and sadness only increase when Asterion admits, A certain generous impatience prevented me from learning to read. He runs joyfully to greet rare visitors, in part because he can liberate them from evil. Then you understand how, why - and who. (spoiler view) Asterion is the Minotaur. (hide spoiler) There are (at least) two sides to each story. Other DeathDoes every choice or change create a new path in time? Dark but dull memories of a bloody civil war, followed by interesting diversions in truth against the memory and omnipotence of God, encapsulated in the question of whether a hero and a coward with the same name are two people, or two facets of one. Deutsches RequiemA is a brave and controversial piece: on the eve of his execution, the sub-director of the Nazi concentration camp lays out his thoughts so that he can be understood (he has no desire to be pardoned, because I do not feel guilty). In part, he considers Nazism internally moral because compassion on the part of a higher person is the supreme sin of zaratustra. This justifies the murder of Jews, even the poet whom he admired: I destroyed him... destroy my own compassion. Chilling.He does not generate sympathy, but I, reluctantly, feel the desire to be understood has been partially achieved. Averroes' Search Look at failure and defeat despite great aspiration. An Arab doctor in Al Andalus writes an interpretation of Aristotle, but the stumped terms of comedy and tragedy. Sahir 6Golova spinning time. The idealistic doctrine that verbs live and dream at every point is synonymous; for me, thousands and thousands of speeches go into one; a complicated dream to pass into a simple one. Others would dream that I was crazy, while how I dream about This opens with a list of many meanings of the word, zahir, in different languages and cultures. The one that matters here is an object that can inspire obsession to such an extent that the victim loses touch with reality. Perhaps that is why, at the very beginning, Borges writes: I am still, albeit only partially, Borges. All sorts of things have been zahirs in mythology, but this is one innocent kind of coin that Borges is given in a bar when drowning his sadness about lost, dead love (a woman with an obsession of her own: glamour and perfection). It has the letters N and T scratched on it. There is no less material than money, as any coin ... It's a panopli of all possible futures, a symbol of free will, perhaps. Money is abstract... Money is the future of time. After sleepless nights, confusion, consultation with a psychiatrist and cleaning books, Borges learns more about zahirs and decides to get rid of the coin in another anonymous bar and write a fantasy about it. In Deutsches Requiem, a couple of stories earlier, the idea of being driven to madness by being fixated on one thing (even a map of Hungary) is mentioned, and this idea spreads here. He tells the story of a magical tiger, who was a zahir, and a fakir, who drew an infinite tiger ... consists of many tigers in the most dizzying ways. In fact, it contained almost everything (for example, Aleph - the last story in this collection). Tennyson said that if we could but understand one flower we could know who we are and what the world is, because all the elements of everything else. Another object of obsession is , in a collection of the same name. Perhaps God is behind the coin. The Scripture of Godsold not from sleep, but in the previous dream, and this dream lies in another, and so on, to infinity. The god priest (bottom case, not possessive) is in prison, with a tiger/jaguar on the other side of a piece of glass. Coming from zahir, his growing obsession with this tiger is not surprising. The priest believes that God created a secret magic phrase that is hidden in creation and can ward off evil. Perhaps he had seen it many times without realizing it, or not realizing it. He trawls his memories of the world and begins to see God and message throughout - but especially the marking creature. Obsession drives him to the brink of madness. He has the last revelation, but it was unique to him, and it dies with him. In the language of God, every word would speak of that endless confation of events... God... must speak, but one word, and in this word there must be absolute abundance. Ibn-Hakam al-Vicar, killed in his Labyrinth 5'Cornwall, 1914 (quite a shock, compared to the vague and more exotic places of most other stories), and two men explore the ruined house, while one tells the other its story, involving a North African prince, a slave, a lion and the prophecy of a murderous dead man. Walking around They felt like they were strangled in the house... through the darkness... an invisible wall, burdened with strength and angles, passed endlessly under his arm. When it was built, a local vicar condemned it from the pulpit, declaring it intolerant that the house should consist of one room, but the league on the league corridors ... No Christian has ever built such a house. He also told the story - which is one after that: Two Kings and Two Mazes. but said as you told them they were clearly a hoax. He unpicks less believable aspects of the story, turns it around, and offers an alternative. Two Kings and Two Mazes Is a short tale cited by a vicar in a previous story: It is the prerogative of God, not man, to strike confusion and inspire a miracle. Waiting Easier to withstand a terrible event that present it, wait for it endlessly. According to the postscript, this was suggested by a true police story. A man arrives in a new city, wanting to be inconspicuous, using a false name - the name of his enemy - although he was not seduced by the literary mistake of imagining that accepting the name of his enemy would be a shrewd thing to do. He holds on to himself, comes out rarely and carefully, tries to live in the present, and scours the news to find out if the other person has died. (spoiler view) Instead, his enemy comes to him. (hide spoiler) The man on the doorstep One house is similar to another - it's important to know whether it's built in heaven or hell. A man sent to quell unrest in an Indian city disappeared a few years later; the narrator is trying to find him. In the postscript, Borges says he has staged it in India, so his implausible can be tolerable, though it seems no less likely than most. In an opaque city that magically swallowed a man... I felt like... the endless presence of a spell to hide the location of Glencairn. Everyone claimed to have either never heard of it, let alone seen him, or saw it a few minutes ago. Finally, a very old person seems to know something, although what he knows is unclear, and his relevance is unclear, especially because he seems to be talking about events many years ago. Aleph 6It bears a resemblance to sahir, formerly in this collection: a man obsessed with a dead woman, and a mysterious object that inspires obsession and seems to contain everything. Borges visits the house of her love every year, on the anniversary of her death, staying a little longer each time until he finishes the dinner guest. Her cousin is an obsessive poet who to versify the entire planet and the charms in reading his epic doggerel Borges. He lavishly praises his work, but will not publish, fearing that he may create an army of irreconcilable and powerful enemies. Borges realized that the poet's work lay not in poetry, but in the invention of reasons for accounting for poetry wonderfully - that it was not, a poem that seemed to draw to infinity the possibility of cacophony and chaos! The poet's house is under threat of demolition, and he is distraught, because in his basement is Aleph, which he shows Borjaz. Aleph is one of the dots in space that contains all the dots, in this case, a disk about three centimeters in diameter. This gives a dizzying effect, wonderfully described (and also explains the poet's attempt to write about everywhere in the world). In that moment, I saw millions of delightful and horrible acts... all occupy the same point, without superposition and without transparency ... Every thing... there were endless things because I could clearly see it from every point in space. These stream-of-consciousness passages are beautiful, but the ending is unexpectedly flat: (kind of spoiler) Borges (one in history) questions Aleph's authenticity and uniqueness and implies that he couldn't see it, thereby suggesting the poet might be crazy. The house is demolished, but instead of being broken down by Borges, the poet, freed from his obsession, publishes his poetry - and gets prizes for it. (hide spoiler). The quotes: Black shadow bristling with idolatrous forms on yellow sand - the walls of the city. I imagined a world without memory, without time and a language that had no nouns, a language of impersonal verbs or indecisive adjectives. All beings are immortal because they know nothing about death. Argos and I have lived our lives in separate universes... our ideas were different, but the Argos united them differently than I did. E heresies we should fear those that can be confused with orthodoxy. Her eyes were that half-hearted blue that the English call gray. The most solemn events are timeless... Immediate past torn apart... from the future, because the elements that make up these events do not seem to be consistent. Tearing money is an act of sewage, like throwing away bread. To change the past is not to change one event; it is to annul all its effects, which are usually indefinitely. There is no more cunning consolation than the thought that we have chosen our own misfortunes. It's hard to follow fashion in war, so the foreign man she always had her doubts about being allowed to take advantage of her goodwill by sending her hats off. These ridiculous forms were never worn in Paris and were not hats, but arbitrary and unauthorized whims ... The predictable rows of one- and two-home houses have taken on the abstract air they often have at night when they are simplified by darkness and silence. Man comes to resemble the form of his destiny. Tired of a world in which there was no dignity of danger, friends appreciated the loneliness of this corner of Cornwall. The past is what time is made of. The notion that there can be parallels between art and life has never come to him... Unlike people who read novels, he never saw himself as a character in the book. A very old man his many years has cut and polished it as water smoothes and polishes a stone or generations of people polish the proverb. This ancient little man, for whom the present was hardly more than an uncertain hearing. Our minds are permeable to forgetfulness, which sounds pretty spin-to- front. ... More... 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