The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969: Together with Commentaries and an Autobiographical Essay

Jorge Luis Borges; Norman Thomas di Giovanni [Editor]; Norman Thomas di Giovanni [Translator];

E. P. Dutton, 1970

Stated First Edition. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Jacket clipped. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Bookplate inside. Faint spotting to front end page. 286 p., 24 cm. 

Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges exerted a strong influence on the direction of literary fiction through his genre-bending metafictions, essays, and poetry. Borges was a founder, and principal practitioner, of postmodernist literature, a movement in which literature distances itself from life situations in favor of reflection on the creative process and critical self-examination. Widely read and profoundly erudite, Borges was a polymath who could discourse on the great literature of Europe and America and who assisted his translators as they brought his work into different languages.