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The Aleph

Short Story

The Aleph

Jorge Luis Borges

194511 pages

A narrator reflects on his strained relationship with a self-important poet mourning a woman they both knew. When invited to visit the poet’s home, he encounters a mysterious phenomenon hidden in an unremarkable location—one that offers a fleeting, dizzying glimpse of the infinite. The story explores the collision between ego and eternity, and the unsettling ways in which the extraordinary can hide in the everyday.

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