| Record Number |
745682 |
| ISBN |
0142437883 (pbk.) |
| Author |
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 |
| Title |
The aleph (including the prose fictions from The Maker) / Jorge Luis Borges ; translated with an introduction by Andrew Hurley. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York, N.Y., USA : Penguin Books, 2004. |
| Pagination etc. |
xiii, 210 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Penguin classics |
| 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. |
| Summary Note |
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." |
| Subject |
Argentina -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| Added Author |
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 |
| Shelf Location |
F BORG |
| Internet Site |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2004276122-b.html |
| See Also |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2004276122-d.html |
