Overview

• August 24 marks Jorge Luis Borges’s birth anniversary, which in Argentina is observed as Día del Lector by a 2012 national law.
• El Aleph first appeared in the September 1945 issue of the cultural magazine Sur, edited by Victoria Ocampo.
• Borges brought the completed story to Estela Canto, who typed it, kept the original manuscript, and later auctioned it without objection from the author.
• Coverage highlights the tale’s core concerns with impossible love, the vanity of literary ambition, and the challenge of grasping a boundless reality.
• Critics point to the story’s enduring influence across Argentine letters, with contemporary writers continuing to echo and rework its conceit.