''The Aleph and Other Stories'' (Spanish: ''El Aleph'', 1949) is a book of short stories by Argentine writer

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known b ...

. 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 An afterword is a literary device that is often found at the end of a piece of literature. It generally covers the story of how the book came into being, or of how the idea for the book was developed. An afterword may be written by someone other ...

, dated May 3, 1949 (Buenos Aires), that most of the stories belong to the genre of

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, 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" (The Intruder) was first printed in the third edition of ''El Aleph'' (1966) and was later included in the collection ''El informe de Brodie'' (1970).http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/lasa95/brant.html

*" The Immortal" ("El inmortal") *"

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" ("El Muerto") *" The Theologians" ("Los teólogos") *" Story of the Warrior and the Captive" ("Historia del guerrero y la cautiva") *"

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" ("Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829–1874)") *"

Emma Zunz "Emma Zunz" is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The tale recounts how its eponymous heroine avenges the death of her father. Originally published in September 1948 in the magazine ''Sur'', it was reprinted in Borges' 1949 coll ...

" *" The House of Asterion" ("La casa de Asterión") *" The Other Death" ("La otra muerte") *" Deutsches Requiem" ("Deutsches réquiem") *"

Averroes's Search "Averroës's Search" (original Spanish title: "La Busca de Averroes") is a 1947 short story by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Originally published in the magazine '' Sur'', it was later included in his second anthology of short stories, ' ...

" ("La busca de Averroes") *" The Zahir" ("El zahir") *"

The Writing of the God "The Writing of the God" (original Spanish title: "La escritura del dios", sometimes translated as "The God's Script") is a short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was published in '' Sur'' in February 1949, and later reprinted i ...

" ("La escritura del dios") *" Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth"Added to the 1952 edition of "The Aleph" ("Abenjacán el Bojarí, muerto en su laberinto") *" The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" ("Una leyenda arábiga" ("Historia de los dos reyes y los dos laberintos, como nota de Burton") ) *" The Wait" ("La espera") *"

The Man on the Threshold "The Man on the Threshold" (original Spanish title "El Hombre en el Umbral") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was published in La Nación in April 1952 and added to 1952 edition of short story collection Aleph. Plot sum ...

" ("El hombre en el umbral") *" The Aleph" ("El Aleph")

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