BORGES, Jorge Luis. El Aleph. Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1949. Octavo, 146pp. First edition of Borges's last major collection of ficciones, containing, as well as the epoch-making title story, such subtle marvels as "Emma Zunz," "Deutsches Requium," "La busca de Averroes," "El Zahir" and "El inmortal," among others. Like Beckett, Borges continued to refine his art to a point at which it bore only the most ethereal relationship to traditional narrative, in which the subtlest verbal movement would suffice to convey the great worlds of the earlier work without the obvious benefit of the encumbering structures demanded by literary tradition. There are certainly few stranger or richer stories than "El Aleph," in which the monadological wealth of the bizarre object that gives the work its title is somehow recapitulated in the infinities and the infinitesimal abysses of the narrative itself. One has, reading it, the eerie sense that one has left the plane in which ordinary narrative takes place and entered literally utopian mental and emotional realms for which no compass exists to orient one. Inscribed by Borges in English on the title page. Very good in publisher's illustrated wrappers. A literary artifact of the first water.

• Category: Extraordinary Books, Manuscripts & Art
• Keywords: argentina · association copies · borges · LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE · Manuscripts · SIGNED
• Language: Englisch
• Inventory number: 12411LB

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