A review by ostrava
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
5.0
Ficciones and Aleph are twin books, or at least I've always considered them so. One more fantastical, bathed in reality, the other, a real portrait of the fantastic. One more iconic, more expansive and grand in scope, the other, more personal and stark in vision.
There's an infinite wisdom and a real challenge of ideas lurking behind every sentence of each tale, and yet, the narration is never interrupted. That's why he was one of the greatest literary minds that ever existed. He had the effortless capacity to paint a mosaic out of all of human intellect, and an unparalleled ability to remind us of the value of words.
Few anthologies are as bright in vision as The Aleph and its predecessor.
There's an infinite wisdom and a real challenge of ideas lurking behind every sentence of each tale, and yet, the narration is never interrupted. That's why he was one of the greatest literary minds that ever existed. He had the effortless capacity to paint a mosaic out of all of human intellect, and an unparalleled ability to remind us of the value of words.
Few anthologies are as bright in vision as The Aleph and its predecessor.