Name: The Aleph (Alef)
Brand: Azbuka
SKU: 8451211198766
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Author: Jorge Luis Borges
ISBN: 9785389197749

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Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most famous writers of the 20th century, who largely defined the face of modern literature. Borges's texts, whether fiction, poetry, or reflection, are a unique intellectual game—they are full of secrets and fantastical images whose origins lie in the literatures and cultures of the past.
This edition includes the author's entire collection, 'Aleph,' a collection of fictional stories that brought the Argentine writer worldwide fame.

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Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine prose writer, poet, and publicist.

Borges was born in 1899 in Buenos Aires. His full name was Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, although, according to Argentine custom, he never used it. On his father’s side, Borges had Spanish and Irish roots. Borges’s mother apparently came from a family of Portuguese Jews; her parents’ surnames—Acevedo and Pinedo—belonged to some of the best-known Jewish families of Portuguese origin in Buenos Aires. Borges himself stated that Basque, Andalusian, Jewish, English, Portuguese, and Norman blood flowed in him.…

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