![]() ![]() ![]() At two generations’ remove, “the Italian s and the liberal Italian gesticulation still survive him.” He is the sort of man who is given brandy and pronounces it “interesting.” The sort of man who, like a more self-involved copy of Mrs. Carlos Argentino is a vivid presence: “a pink, substantial, gray-haired man of refined features” who works at a library on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. “The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges concerns, along with mirrors and the infinite: the demolition of a house, literary prizes, fragile egos, café lighting, the death of Beatriz Viterbo (the object of the narrator’s veiled love), and a few terrible stanzas by Carlos Argentino Daneri, a pompous and longwinded academic who has taken it upon himself to write a poem whose theme is the entirety of Earth. Stories Strangely Told is a monthly series that explores formal experiment in short-form fiction. ![]()
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