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El Aleph [Paperback]

Jorge Luis Borges (Author), Jorge Luis (Author)
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Libro de Bolsillo 1971
El trabajo que da titulo a Historia de la eternidad se ocupa del tiempo y de su negacion y examina dos concepciones contrapuestas de eternidad: la alejandrina, de raiz platonica, y la cristiana, nacida con la doctrina trinitaria de Ireneo y formalizada por San Agustin. Otras dos penetrantes digresiones estudian la doctrina de Nietzsche sobre el eterno retorno y las concepciones basadas en el caracter recurrente del movimiento historico. El examen de las versiones clásicas de Las 1001 noches ilustra los condicionamientos culturales e historicos de la labor de traduccion.

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Este volumen reune dieciocho relatos de Jorge Luis Borges, entre ellos quiza los mas elogiados y repetidamente citados. Tanto ""El inmortal"" como ""Los teologos"", ""Deutsches Requiem"" y ""La espera"" muestran las posibilidades expresivas de la ""estetica de la inteligencia"" borgiana, inimitable fusion de mentalidad matematica, profundidad metafisica y captacion poetica del mundo. --Los editores

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Text: Spanish --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 201 pages
  • Publisher: Alianza (1971)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 8420633119
  • ISBN-13: 978-8420633114
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.5 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #322,466 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Intellectual ecstasy, December 31, 2001
"The Aleph" is the title given to a collection of short stories written by J.L.Borges, one of the most prominent Latin American writers who, contrary to his contemporaries, was mainly concerned with the eternal questions of existence, leaving political and social issues aside. An elusive personality, a solitary intellect, Borges addressed the selective ones and not the masses. With a succinct, sometimes laconic style, in an ironic and nihilist attitude, he deals with philosophical questions, history, time, personal identity, human ethics, and the mystical experience of the Oneness. Most known for his poetry, Borges also wrote essays and short stories. His short stories can be viewed as essays, or essays which have turned into fiction.

Borges had a metaphysical perspective of reality and his fictional universe is immersed in esoteric concepts and theological speculations on Gnoticism and Cabala. (The Aleph -- first letter of the Hebrew alphabet -- is considered by the Cabalists as the mystical letter through which it is possible to see the whole universe) Borges incorporates this concept in his obsession to find the ultimate elixir of life. For him life's purpose has no meaning, what is important is the ethical and intellectual instinct; reality is seen as ideas which only persist while they are perceived, time has no beginning and is not infinite. In this unconceivable world, the self must be extinguished in order to achieve revelation.

To understand Borges requires rereading and interpretation, it requires an internalization of his philosophical perspectives which paradoxically means the impossibility of understanding. Borges draws literature into the world of quantum reality!

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars muy buen libro, merece ser leído, April 24, 1999
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El Aleph es un libro bastante interesante, recopilación de 18 breves narraciones, muy analíticas. Borges, nos muestra la variedad de su pensamiento y de sus ideas;nos enséña la mitología, la religión, la conciencia, la historia universal enfocada en los siglos mas remotos, la muerte, y en la última de sus narraciones, la que le da el nombre al libro, "El Aleph", término desconocido para mi hasta entonces, exposición de un mensaje filosófico muy complejo desde el punto de su vivencia personal. Para todos los que desean conocer la obra de Borges, este libro puede ser un buen comienzo para tener la noción de sus escritos.
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Cuentos Maestros, April 25, 2002
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Cuando uno descubre a un escritor como Borges se arrepiente del tiempo perdido divagando en la literatura, intentando encontrar un libro que te haga retener el aire en cada párrafo leído para finalizarlo con una exhalación de complacencia. Borges es de los personajes al que muchos de nosotros debemos agradecerles esa bendita adicción a la lectura.

Jorge Luis Borges juega con sus lectores, especialmente con aquellos -y me considero uno de ellos- que olvidan que están leyendo cuentos fantásticos y tratamos de encontrar alguna relación con nuestro mundo real o buscamos simbolismos que no existen. Esto se debe a que este escritor tiene la facilidad de sumergirnos en cada una de sus historias haciéndonos partícipes de sus invenciones y logrando abstraernos de nuestra realidad.

El Aleph reúne una serie de cuentos cuyos episodios se desarrollan en "dimensiones paralelas" a la nuestra -por decirlo de algún modo -. Dimensiones habitadas por seres inmortales que mueren dos veces y pueden recorrer el mundo a través de un punto ubicado en un lugar secreto de una vivienda en vísperas de ser derruida. No hay un cuento que podamos considerarlo como el mejor; cada uno de ellos tiene un encanto especial desarrollado en un tiempo desconocido y en un mundo irreal.

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