The Aleph

Main Characters and Their Development

• At the center of the narrative is the narrator, endowed with traits of Borges himself: a man seeking truth in the labyrinths of memory and time, inclined to reflect on infinity and the nature of reality. His inner world is filled with longing for lost love and a thirst to comprehend the incomprehensible. The second key character is Carlos Argentino Daneri—an eccentric poet obsessed with the idea of capturing the entire universe in verse. His vanity and naive faith in his own calling contrast with the narrator's skepticism and irony. The interaction between these figures reveals the complex play of human passions, vanity, and the striving for the absolute, and their development is a journey from the ordinary to an encounter with the miraculous, from irony to awe before the mystery of existence.