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El Aleph: cuento

Pages
218
Published
1957
Language
English

Synopsis

Imagine a single point in space that holds the entire universe, visible from every angle at once. This is the Aleph, a concept explored in Jorge Luis Borges' masterful short story. The tale follows a grieving narrator who encounters his deceased love's cousin, a pompous poet obsessed with writing an all-encompassing epic. When the poet reveals his secret, the narrator is drawn into a mind-bending encounter with the infinite.