Brain Worms 116 / The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
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Written in a deceptively simple, almost laconic style Borges takes us 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. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.
We will be reading the Penguin edition of The Aleph and Other Stories which contains the following stories:
"The Immortal" ("El inmortal")
"The Dead Man" ("El Muerto")
"The Theologians" ("Los teólogos")
"Story of the Warrior and the Captive" ("Historia del guerrero y la cautiva")
"Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz" ("Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829–1874)")
"Emma Zunz"
"The House of Asterion" ("La casa de Asterión")
"The Other Death" ("La otra muerte")
"Deutsches Requiem" ("Deutsches réquiem")
"Averroes's Search" ("La busca de Averroes")
"The Zahir" ("El zahir")
"The Writing of the God" ("La escritura del dios")
"Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth" ("Abenjacán el Bojarí, muerto en su laberinto")
"The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" ("Una leyenda arábiga" ("Historia de los dos reyes y los dos laberintos, como nota de Burton") ) "The Wait" ("La espera")
"The Man on the Threshold" ("El hombre en el umbral")
"The Aleph" ("El Aleph")
Available from all good libraries and book shops.
You don't have to have read it to join us - but it'll probably help.
We will be meeting in The Ludski Bar in the Rio Cinema.
https://www.riocinema.org.uk/your-visit/
You are welcome to bring outside food in with you but please buy your drinks from inside the cinema. Thank you.
We hope to see you there.
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