I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space. The aleph is a short story by the argentine writer and poet jorge luis borges. O god, i could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king. Borges stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. First published in september 1945, it was reprinted in the short story collection, the aleph and other stories, in 1949, and revised by the author in 1974. It is one of the stories in the short story collection, the aleph and other stories. But they will teach us that eternity is the standing. Borges writes in the original afterword, dated may 3, 1949 buenos aires, that most of the stories belong to the genre of fantasy. So that as plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance. Texto completo o god, i could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space hamlet, ii, 2 but they will teach us that eternity is the standing still of the present time, a nuncstans ast the schools call it. Borges writes in the original afterword, dated may 3, 1949 buenos aires, that. Hamlet, ii, 2 but they will teach us that eternity is the standing still of the present time, anuncstans ast the schools call it. Jorge luis borges o god, i could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space. Vaccaro sanchez moreno, 794 cp 1091 capital federal buenos aires interior.
The title work, the aleph, describes a point in space that contains all other spaces at once. Velez sarsfield, 1950 cp 1285 capital federal buenos aires. 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 1974. Hamlet, ii, 2 but they will teach us that eternity is the standing still of the present time, a nuncstans as the schools call it. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, borges returns again and again to his themes.