The Aleph Study Guide consists of approx. 61 pages of summaries and analysis on The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges. Browse the literature study guide below:
The story opens with an epigraph consisting of two quotes: one from Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, and the other from a work titled, Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbs. The first quote, "O, God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a King of infinite space," is very clearly a reference to an Aleph, which Carlos discovers at stair nineteen in his basement. An Aleph is "one of the points in space that contain [sic] all other points." (
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