The Aleph and Other Stories (Spanish:
El Aleph, 1949) is a book of short stories by
Argentine writer
Jorge Luis Borges. The title work, "
The Aleph", describes a point in space that contains all other spaces at once. The work also presents the idea of infinite time. Borges writes in the original
afterword, dated May 3, 1949 (Buenos Aires), that most of the stories belong to the genre of
fantasy, mentioning themes such as identity and immortality. Borges added four new stories to the collection in the 1952 edition, for which he provided a brief postscript to the afterword.