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

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 writer Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...

. The title work, "The Aleph", describes an artifact that can reveal the entire universe at once. The work also presents the idea of infinite time. Borges writes in the original afterword

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....

, dated May 3, 1949 (Buenos Aires) 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.

Contents

• "The Immortal" ("El inmortal")
• "The Dead Man
  The Dead Man (short story)
  "The Dead Man" is a short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was first published on the magazine Sur in November 1946.-Plot summary:...
  
  " ("El Muerto")
• "The Theologians
  The Theologians
  "The Theologians" is a short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was featured in the collection Labyrinths...
  
  " ("Los teólogos")
• "Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden" ("Historia del guerrero y la cautiva")
• "A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829–1874)" ("Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829–1874)")
• "Emma Zunz
  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 collection The Aleph....
  
  "
• "The House of Asterion
  The House of Asterion
  "The House of Asterion" is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in Los Anales de Buenos Aires in May 1947. It was reprinted in the short-story collection El Aleph in 1949.-Plot summary:The story takes the form of a monologue by Asterion...
  
  " ("La casa de Asterión")
• "The Other Death" ("La otra muerte")
• "Deutsches Requiem" ("Deutsches réquiem")
• "Averroes's Search
  Averroes's Search
  "Averroës's Search" 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, El Aleph.-Plot summary:The story imagines the difficulty of Averroës, the famed Arabic commentator and...
  
  " ("La busca de Averroes")
• "The Zahir
  The Zahir
  The Zahir is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is one of the stories in the book The Aleph and Other Stories, first published in 1949, and revised by the author in 1974....
  
  " ("El zahir")
• "The Writing of the God
  The Writing of the God
  "The Writing of the God" is a short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was published in Sur in February 1949, and later reprinted in the collection The Aleph.- Plot summary :...
  
  " ("La escritura del Dios")
• "Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labryinth" ("Abenjacán el Bojarí, muerto en su laberinto")
• "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths
  The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths
  "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" (original Spanish title: "Una Leyenda Arábiga (Historia de los dos Reyes y los dos Laberintos, como Nota de Burton") is a short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, first...
  
  " ("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")