A review by jgwc54e5
The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969 by Jorge Luis Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni

4.0

Some really interesting stories about immortality, Infinity, masculinity, reality and lots of labyrinths and knife fights. My favourites were “The Circular Ruins” (a magician creates a son in a dream to send to another tower only to discover that he must also be a dream creation), “Death and the Compass” (an ingenious murder plot using religious symbolism), “The Two Kings and their Two Labyrinths”, and “Borges and Myself” where the character Borges talked about the writer Borges.
“Years ago, I tried ridding myself of him and I went from myths of the outlying slums of the city to games with time and infinity, but those games are now part of Borges and I will have to turn to other things”.
This book also has an autobiographical essay and some commentaries on the stories.