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The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges

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Name: Jorge Luis Borges
Birth Date: August 24, 1899
Death Date: June 14, 1986
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Place of Death: Geneva, Switzerland
Nationality: Argentine
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, poet

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Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
806 words, approx. 2.7 pages
The Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was one of Latin America's most original and influential prose writers and poets. His short stories revealed him as one of the great stylists of the Spanish language. Jorge Luis Borges was born on August...
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Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
8990 words, approx. 30 pages
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's best-known writer, was born on 24 August 1899 in a traditional old house in central Buenos Aires (not far from today's financial district) and grew up in the neighborhood of Palermo. His father, Jorge Guillermo Borges, was...
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Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
7145 words, approx. 23.8 pages
The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary world literature. Continuing the tradition of fantastic literature established by Edgar Allan Poe in the nineteenth century, he transformed the genre into an elec...
 


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The Aleph Information
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"The Aleph" is a short story by the Argentinean writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is one of the stories in the short story collection, The Aleph and Other Stories, first published in 1949, and revised by the author in...


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Mathematics and Computer Education
The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
04/01/2001: 689 words, approx. 2 pages
(ProQuest Information and Learning: Foreign characters omitted.) THE MYSTERY OF THE ALEPH: MATHEMATICS, THE KABBALAH, AND THE SEARCH FOR INFINITY by Amir Aczel Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, NY, 258 pp., 2000 Seeing a marked increase in the number of...
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The Stranger
Aleph to Zervas; What's More Degraded: Technology or Memory?
04/23/2003: 713 words, approx. 2 pages
IN JORGE LUIS BORGES' story "The Aleph," the pedant Carlos Argentino Daneri evokes modern man, "'in his studio-laboratory... supplied with telephones, telegraphs, phonographs, radiotelephone apparatus, cinematographic equipment, magic lanterns, glossaries, timetables, compendiums, bulletins...'" Daneri was writing a horrible epic poem that claimed to...
 


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