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

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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 regarded as a key figure in Spanish literature, Spanish-language and international literatur ...

. 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 oth ...

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

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction that involves supernatural or Magic (supernatural), magical elements, often including Fictional universe, imaginary places and Legendary creature, creatures. The genre's roots lie in oral traditions, ...

, 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).

*" The Immortal" ("El inmortal") *" The Dead Man" ("El Muerto") *" The Theologians" ("Los teólogos") *" Story of the Warrior and the Captive" ("Historia del guerrero y la cautiva") *" Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz" ("Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829–1874)") *" Emma Zunz" *"

The House of Asterion "The House of Asterion" (original Spanish title: "") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in 1947 in the literary magazine ''Los Anales de Buenos Aires'' and republished in Borges's short story ...

" ("La casa de Asterión") *" The Other Death" ("La otra muerte") *" Deutsches Requiem" ("Deutsches réquiem") *" Averroes's Search" ("La busca de Averroes") *" The Zahir" ("El zahir") *" The Writing of the God" ("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" ("El hombre en el umbral") *" The Aleph" ("El Aleph")

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1949 short story collections Fantasy short story collections Short story collections by Jorge Luis Borges Spanish-language short story collections {{1940s-story-collection-stub

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