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El Aleph (Spanish) Paperback – 1971

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Product Details

  • Series: Libro de Bolsillo (Book 1)
  • Paperback: 201 pages
  • Publisher: Alianza; Poc edition (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: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #544,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 starsIntellectual ecstasy
By Esther Nebenzahl on December 31, 2001
Format: Paperback
"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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4.0 out of 5 starsmuy buen libro, merece ser leído
By A Customer on April 24, 1999
Format: Paperback
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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5.0 out of 5 starsCuentos Maestros
By Victor Gonzaga on April 25, 2002
Format: Paperback
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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5.0 out of 5 starsInteresante compendio Borgiano
By Martingale on October 20, 2004
Format: Paperback
Este es el tercer libro de Borges que leo (tras su 'Historia universal de la infamia' y su 'Manual de zoologia fantastica'), y aunque me parece menos interesante que los otros dos, merece ser leido.

Igual que las otras obras de Borges mencionadas anteriormente, se trata de un compendio de cuentos, escritos en un estilo denominado 'realismo magico'. Los hechos fantasticos se mezclan con hechos potencialmente veraces, y los limites entre lo posible y lo imposible, lo verdadero y lo falso se acaban por difuminar. Asi, en el cuento 'La escritura de Dios', un sacerdote mexica capturado por el conquistador Alvarado (contexto historico potencialmente veraz) es encarcelado con un jaguar (verdad? simbologia?) en cuyas manchas cree ver un mensaje de dios (locura? es verdad el mensaje?).

Ejemplos parecidos a este se repiten en todos los cuentos del libro e invitan al lector a dudar de lo que es verdadero o falso, y de su propia capacidad de comprension de lo que le rodea.
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5.0 out of 5 stars"...probably the most discussed and analyzed narrative in Latin American literature."
By America Reads Spanish on July 10, 2012
Format: Paperback
Jose Luis Borges has four works highlighted in "The New Essential Guide to Spanish Reading" published by America Reads Spanish, a campaign aimed to increase the use and reading of the Spanish language through the thousands of libraries, schools and book stores in the US. El Aleph is perhaps the best-known. As reviewed in the guide, "Among the unparalleled volumes of stories by Borges, perhaps none is as well-known as this one. The title story is probably the most discussed and analyzed narrative in Latin American literature."
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