| Description |
xiii, 210 pages ; 20 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Penguin classics
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| Contents |
Aleph: The Immortal -- The dead man -- The theologians -- Story of the warrior and the captive maiden -- A biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874) -- Emma Zunz -- The house of Asterion -- The other death -- Deutsches requiem -- Averroes' search -- The Zahir -- The writing of the God -- Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, murdered in his labyrinth -- The two kings and the two labyrinths -- The wait -- The man on the threshold -- The Aleph -- Afterword -- The Maker: Forword: for Leopold Lugones -- The maker -- Dreamtigers -- A dialog about a dialog -- Toenails -- Covered mirrors -- Argumentum Ornithologicum -- The captive -- The mountebank -- Delia Elena San Marco -- The dialog between dead men -- The plot -- A problem -- The yellow rose -- The witness -- Martin Fierro -- Mutations -- Parable of Cervantes and the Quixot -- Paradiso, XXXI, 108 -- Parable of the palace -- Everything and nothing -- Ragnarok -- Inferno, I -- Borges and I -- Museum: On exactitude and science -- In memoriam J.F.K. |
| Summary |
Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Maya priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a man awaiting his assassin, and a woman plotting vengeance on her father's "killer." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Argentina -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Short stories.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Hurley, Andrew, 1944-
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections. English
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| Cover Title |
Aleph (including the prose fictions from the Maker) |
| ISBN |
0142437883 (pbk.) |
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9780142437889 (pbk.) : $17.00 |
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