The Aleph And Other Stories

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories showcase some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters, taking readers inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s “killer,” and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. The volume also includes the hauntingly brief vignettes on literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, written as Borges’s failing eyesight and public fame began to challenge his sense of self. For over seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, offering more than 1,700 titles that form a global bookshelf of the finest works across history, genres, and disciplines. Readers trust Penguin Classics for authoritative texts with introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.