The aleph (including the prose fictions from the Maker)

Borges, Jorge Luis 1899-1986 (Author). Hurley, Andrew, 1944- (Added Author).

Summary: Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Maya priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a man awaiting his assassin, and a woman plotting vengeance on her father's "killer."

Record details

ISBN: 9780142437889
ISBN: 0142437883
Physical Description: xiii, 210 pages ; 20 cm.
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Publisher: New York, N.Y., USA : Penguin Books, 2004.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Aleph: The Immortal -- The dead man -- The theologians -- Story of the warrior and the captive maiden -- A biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874) -- Emma Zunz -- The house of Asterion -- The other death -- Deutsches requiem -- Averroes' search -- The Zahir -- The writing of the God -- Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, murdered in his labyrinth -- The two kings and the two labyrinths -- The wait -- The man on the threshold -- The Aleph -- Afterword -- The Maker: Forword: for Leopold Lugones -- The maker -- Dreamtigers -- A dialog about a dialog -- Toenails -- Covered mirrors -- Argumentum Ornithologicum -- The captive -- The mountebank -- Delia Elena San Marco -- The dialog between dead men -- The plot -- A problem -- The yellow rose -- The witness -- Martin Fierro -- Mutations -- Parable of Cervantes and the Quixot -- Paradiso, XXXI, 108 -- Parable of the palace -- Everything and nothing -- Ragnarok -- Inferno, I -- Borges and I -- Museum: On exactitude and science -- In memoriam J.F.K.