Penguin Classics The Aleph and Other Stories, (Paperback)

from engelcox

“The Aleph”–Like most of his stories, this one is brief but packs a lot of information into its short length. (For those who don't read outside of SF, imagine a J.G. Ballard condensed novel with more connections and a higher sense of the fantastic. Hmm, that was a worthless description. It is har...

from pingdjip

Used to be put off by the rationalism of these stories but like them better and better: the labyrinths and mirrors, the intermingling of history and fiction, the carefully constructed traps that characters walk into. Favorite one: Averroes' search. Second: The theologians.

from bzedan

It was a Penguin collection, trade paperback, which I normally hate (love the mass-markets though!), but it's the first book I've read in a month or so that wasn't on my mobile, so that was nice. Paired with the prose pieces from The Maker, general theme "identity". Borges is one of the authors c...