The Aleph
  • Published: 23 October 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141183831
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $26.00

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: $26.00
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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and was educated in Europe. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of our time, he published many collections of poems, essays and short stories before his death in Geneva in 1986. He was director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973. Mario Vargas Llosa, in a tribute to Borges, has written: 'His is a world of clear, pure, and at the same time unusual ideas expressed in words of great directness and restraint. [He] was a superb storyteller. One reads most of Borges' tales with the hypnotic interest usually reserved for reading detective fiction...'