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The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges ISBN 9780525475392
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Jorge Luis Borges ISBN 9780525475392
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This book by Jorge Luis Borges came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: L.A. Paul. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Dazzling and unmistakable in style, resonant in meaning, Jorge Luis Borges' 'The Aleph and Other Stories' contains the best of Borges' fiction. Included also is a lengthy autobiographical essay written especially for this volume. The twenty stories in this book cover the whole span and all the various facets of Borges' forty-year career as a short story writer.
“The Aleph, I would suggest. I actually think The Garden of Forking Paths and I think it's The Aleph are two really excellent things to read.”— L.A. Paul
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