"The Aleph" (Spanish: El Aleph) is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. First published in September 1945, it was reprinted in...
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The Aleph and Other Stories (Spanish: El Aleph, 1949) is a book of short stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The title work, "The Aleph", describes...
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Aleph (novel), by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho The Aleph and Other Stories, short story collection by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges "The Aleph"...
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2006 on the Trans-Siberian Railway. The title of the novel is based on Jorge Luis Borges’ short story "The Aleph", from 1945. (Aleph is the first letter...
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Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic ʾalif ا, Aramaic ʾālap 𐡀, Hebrew ʾālef א, North...
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Borges, first published in February 1947, and later in the collection El Aleph in 1949. The story tells about a character who mistakenly achieves immortality...
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one of the best-known writers of short stories in the Spanish language. "The Library of Babel" (1941) and "The Aleph" (1945) handle difficult subjects...
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de la Croix The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield Ficciones and El Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges The Collected Stories by Ernest Hemingway...
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Archimedean point (category Concepts in the philosophy of science)
(philosophy) Objectivity (science) The Aleph (short story) Blackburn, Simon, ed. [2008] 2016. "Archimedean Point" (quick reference). The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy...
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published in the collection The Aleph. David Foster Wallace referred to the story as "marvelous". In a riff on Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers", an Argentine...
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The Grand Order of the Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA or אצא) is an international youth-led fraternal organization for Jewish teenagers. It was founded in 1924...
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short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. Published in Sur in February 1946, it was reprinted in the collection El Aleph (1949). It is the fictional...
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It is one of the stories in the book The Aleph and Other Stories, first published in 1949, and revised by the author in 1974. Translated into English...
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Averroes's Search (category Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges)
included in his second anthology of short stories, El Aleph. The story imagines the difficulty of Averroës, the famed Islamic philosopher and translator...
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Sur (#145) in November 1946 and appears in the 1949 short story collection The Aleph. The story deals with the life of a young compadrito from Buenos Aires...
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Lalo Schifrin discography (category Articles with short description)
Cologne (Aleph) 1998 Che! (music from the film Che!) (Aleph) 1998 Jazz Mass in Concert (Aleph) 1998 Metamorphosis: Jazz Meets the Symphony #4 with the London...
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Borges. It first appeared in 1949 in the short story collection El Aleph and later appeared in Labyrinths. The story compares two figures who eschewed their...
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Aum Shinrikyo (redirect from Aleph (Buddhist group))
Aleph (Japanese: アレフ, Hepburn: Arefu), better known by their former name Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教, Oumu Shinrikyō, literally 'religion of Aum Supreme Truth')...
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Emma Zunz (category 1940s short story stubs)
published in September 1948 in the magazine Sur, it was reprinted in Borges' 1949 collection The Aleph. The story deals with the themes of justice and revenge...
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A (redirect from Single-story a)
languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. The earliest known ancestor of A is aleph—the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet—where...
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involved in the adaptation process. The William Gibson aleph has called the comic an "interesting evocation of the fake paradise of the short story". P. Acevedo...
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Mona Lisa Overdrive (category Works about the Yakuza)
jacked into is a direct reference to the short story "The Aleph" by Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. The titular Aleph is a point in space which contains...
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1947 in the literary magazine Los Anales de Buenos Aires and republished in Borges's short story collection The Aleph in 1949. It is based on the Greek...
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Annales de Buenos Aires in April 1947 and appears in the 1949 short story collection The Aleph. The story follows Aurelian and John of Pannonia, who compete...
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"The Zahir" "The Waiting" "The Writing Of God" Stories 1–13 are from Ficciones; 14–23 are from The Aleph. "The Argentine Writer and Tradition" "The Wall...
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Stephen Alter (category Academic staff of The American University in Cairo)
on the Indian Himalayas and the broader Himalayan region. His novel, Birdwatching (Aleph 2022), received the 2023 Green Book of the Year Award at the Green...
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reprinted in the collection The Aleph. The story is narrated by a Maya priest named Tzinacán, who is tortured by Pedro de Alvarado (who burned the pyramid...
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Johnny Mnemonic (redirect from Johnny Mnemonic (short story))
"Johnny Mnemonic" is a science fiction short story by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. It first appeared in Omni magazine in May 1981, and was...
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Hebrew alphabet (redirect from Aleph bet)
set theory, ℵ 0 {\displaystyle \aleph _{0}} , pronounced aleph-naught, aleph-zero, or aleph-null, is used to mark the cardinal number of an infinite countable...
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Marathon Trilogy (redirect from Aleph One (computer game))
Access). Voice chat can be used to communicate with other players. Using the modern Aleph One engine, games can be played over TCP/IP networks (LAN or Internet)...
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