( Note: This is an article I wrote in 2009 to mark the 110th birth Anniversary of Borges. Therefore, some of the stories I cite here may not belong to this collection. I thought to post it here as this book is the most cited. If you plan to buy a book of Borges, buy this one or Labyrinth and oth...
“Oh God, I could be bounded by a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space.”Hamlet II:2 (quoted by Borges, in epigraph The Aleph)Borges, my blind king of infinite space and limitless imagination, published these 17 stories in 1949. The anchor story, “The Aleph,” describes a point in sp...