The Aleph and Other Stories
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First published in English in 1970 as The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933–1969, this collection gathers some of Jorge Luis Borges’s most remarkable short fiction, including stories from his celebrated 1949 volume El Aleph. Its pages contain a labyrinthine city, a man who may have lived for thousands of years, a point in space in which the entire universe is visible, and a library whose infinite shelves seem to hold the sum of human knowledge. Borges begins with seemingly precise, often scholarly premises and follows them into territories where memory, identity, time and reality become uncertain. The result is fiction that moves effortlessly between the detective story, the fantastic and philosophical speculation.
Borges’s stories are at once intellectually playful and quietly vertiginous, transforming abstract ideas into unforgettable narrative experiences. His fascination with mirrors, doubles, labyrinths and infinity gives the collection its distinctive atmosphere, while his exact, economical prose makes even the most impossible events feel strangely credible. A defining work in modern world literature, The Aleph and Other Stories reveals the extraordinary imaginative range of a writer whose influence extends far beyond the short story, into philosophy, literary criticism and the art of fiction itself.
From the book
“What my eyes saw was simultaneous; what I shall write is successive, because language is successive.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph
On The Aleph and Other Stories
“His essays and stories are experiments, especially in approach.”
— V. S. Pritchett, The New York Review of Books