{"product_id":"the-aleph-and-other-stories-isbn-9780142437889","title":"The Aleph and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFull of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, this collection of stories from the influential Argentinian author contains some of his most fully realized human characters. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith uncanny insight, Jorge Luis Borges takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s “killer,” and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This anthology also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Maker\u003c\/i\u003e, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePenguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.The Aleph and Other StoriesIntroduction by Andrew Hurley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Aleph (1949)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Immortal\u003cbr\u003eThe Dead Man\u003cbr\u003eThe Theologians\u003cbr\u003eStory of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden\u003cbr\u003eA Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)\u003cbr\u003eEmma Zunz\u003cbr\u003eThe House of Asterion\u003cbr\u003eThe Other Death\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeutsches Requiem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAverroës' Search\u003cbr\u003eThe Zahir\u003cbr\u003eThe Writing of the God\u003cbr\u003eIbn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth\u003cbr\u003eThe Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths\u003cbr\u003eThe Wait\u003cbr\u003eThe Man on the Threshold\u003cbr\u003eThe Aleph\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Maker (1960)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword: For Leopold Lugones\u003cbr\u003eThe Maker\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDreamtigers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Dialog About a Dialog\u003cbr\u003eToenails\u003cbr\u003eCovered Mirrors\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArgumentum Ornithologicum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Captive\u003cbr\u003eThe Mountebank\u003cbr\u003eDelia Elena San Marco\u003cbr\u003eA Dialog Between Dead Men\u003cbr\u003eThe Plot\u003cbr\u003eA Problem\u003cbr\u003eThe Yellow Rose \u003cbr\u003eThe Witness\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartin Fierro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMutations\u003cbr\u003eParable of Cervantes and the \u003ci\u003eQuixote\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e, XXXI, 108\u003cbr\u003eParable of the Palace\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEverything and Nothing\u003cbr\u003eRagnarök\u003cbr\u003eInferno,\u003c\/i\u003e I, 32\u003cbr\u003eBorges and I\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMuseum\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Exactitude and Science\u003cbr\u003eIn Memoriam, J.F.K.\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note on the Translation\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes to the Fictions\u003c\/p\u003e\"He more than anyone renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists. Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, José Donoso, and Mario Vargas Llosa have all acknowledged their debt to him.\" —J\u003cb\u003e.M. Coetzee\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place.\" —\u003cb\u003eJohn Updike\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJorges Luis Borges\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and 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 June 1986. In 1961 Borges shared the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett. The Ingram Merrill Foundation granted him its Annual Literary Award in 1966 for his \"outstanding contribution to literature.\" In 1971 Columbia University awarded him the first of many degrees of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa that he was to receive from the English-speaking world. In 1971 he received the fifth biennial Jerusalem Prize and in 1973 was given the Alfonso Reyes Prize, one of Mexico's most prestigious cultural awards. In 1980 he shared the Cervantes Prize (the Spanish world's highest literary accolade) with Gerardo Diego. Borges was Director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973. In a tribute to Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa wrote: \"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...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Hurley\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator of numerous works of literature, criticism, history, and memoir. He is professor emeritus at the University of Puerto Rico.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300044394725,"sku":"NP9780142437889","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142437889.jpg?v=1767738046","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-aleph-and-other-stories-isbn-9780142437889","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}