"The Aleph And Other Stories 1933-1969" 1971 BORGES, Jorge Luis

BORGES, Jorge Luis

[286] pp.

Jonathan Cape

1971

8 3/4" x 5 5/8"

Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni

Jacket design by Alan Tunbridge

In the title story, one of his most celebrated and significant, Borges borrows from Dante "the fundamental theme that a woman's love may lead to a vision of universal wholeness" and seeks "to express the rapturous totality of self and world" (Williamson, 278, 124). The Aleph was published in Spanish in Buenos Aires in 1949. This was the author's sixth book to be translated into English, though the author considered it, along with Ficciones, his major work. The volume includes 20 stories—11 of which had never previously appeared in book form in English—and a lengthy autobiographical essay. Di Giovanni's translations were the only ones done in collaboration with Borges. Loewenstein 294. Becco 37.