The Aleph and Other Stories
The Aleph and Other Stories is a book of short stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The title work, "The Aleph", describes a point in space that contains all other spaces at once. The work also presents the idea of infinite time. Borges writes in the original afterword, dated May 3, 1949, that most of the stories belong to the genre of fantasy, mentioning themes such as identity and immortality. Borges added four new stories to the collection in the 1952 edition, for which he provided a brief postscript to the afterword. The story "La intrusa" was first printed in the third edition of El Aleph and was later included in the collection El informe de Brodie.
The 1970 English language reissue also includes a new preface and commentaries by Borges & di Giovanni, and the Borges & di Giovanni collaboration "An Autobiographical Essay."
Contents
- "The Immortal"
- "The Dead Man"
- "The Theologians"
- "Story of the Warrior and the Captive"
- "Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz"
- "Emma Zunz"
- "The House of Asterion"
- "The Other Death"
- "Deutsches Requiem"
- "Averroes's 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"