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The Aleph
  • Published: 23 October 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141183831
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $28.00

The Aleph

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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.
  • Published: 23 October 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141183831
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $28.00
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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges (b. 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d. 1986, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Argentine short-story writer, poet, essayist and translator. He was one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century, inspiring generations of writers in the US and UK as well as his native Latin America. He is most famous for the short-story collections Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949).
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