![]() ![]() According to the narrator, the Aleph is a “small iridescent sphere with unbearable brilliance” where all places on Earth can be seen from every angle without distortion or confusion, simultaneously. ![]() Written in the first-person point-of-view and the narrator as the main character, the fictionalized Borges witnessed the Aleph and found it as an “unimaginable universe” that cannot be described by language as it is infinite. With its varying theme, the literary piece argues that the universe is ineffable, time is inexorable, experiences shape perception and rationality. Reprinted as the title work of Borges’ 1949 collection “The Aleph and Other Stories”, it does not depict the usual rocket ships heading into space to venture into the mysterious vacuum where the Moon, the planets, the stars, and celestial bodies neither rotate nor revolve but a matter of literary craftsmanship to explore “infinity”. It is written by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges to narrate his fictionalized character’s experience as he saw the Aleph, a point in space where all points in the universe can be seen. In September 1945, the short story “The Aleph” was published in the Argentine journal “Sur”. ![]() ![]() How, then, can I translate into words the limitless Aleph, which my floundering mind can scarcely encompass?” - Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph “All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a shared past. ![]()
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