The Aleph
(Borges, Jorge Luis)
The Aleph is a book of eighteen stories. Located in different geographies: some of their personages are Arab, Jewish, Germans and even Argentine, like the author. The figure of the labyrinth appears in several of stories: ¨La house of the Asterión¨, whose protagonist turns out to be minotauro; ¨ Both kings and both laberintos¨, in which the second labyrinth is cruelest and natural: the desert, that with no need of walls can be more confused and deadly; ¨Abenjacán the Bojarí, died in his laberinto¨, an historical and police reconstruction of a history that looks for its own logic. There are sophisticated and wise personages as Averroes in the dangerously rustic story ¨La looks for of Averroes¨ or as the brothers of the story ¨La intrusa¨, who kill the woman which they have shared. The religious debate appears in the story ¨Los teólogos¨ or ¨La writing of Dios¨. There are revenge stories as he is it the one of the story, that takes name from the protagonist: ¨Emma Zunz¨. Or the resistance with the delirious monólogo of a Nazi before paredón in the story ¨Deutsches Requiem¨. There are personages who at decisive moments take party by the enemy, although this costs the life to them as it happens in ¨Historia of the soldier and cautiva¨ or in the ¨Biografía of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874), in where the pesonaje takes party by the mythical Martin Iron. Also they are the skillful stories of this collection: ¨El inmortal¨, in where the main personage looks for and finds hallucinated the City of the Inmortales and discovers that is their inhabitants in spite of his alienated appearance. Or the story that gives title to the book: ¨El Aleph¨, that contains everything, the universal whole number, the simultaneous times and therefore idescriptible, found in addition in the cellar to one marries. Histories counted with the erudition characteristic of Borges.
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