Denkishuu / The Aleph

Novel·伝奇集/エル・アレフ
Denkishuu / The Aleph
2017/05/26
Characters220,075
Word count96,206
Unique words
12,854
Unique kanji
2,225
Avg. sentence34.3
Difficulty Expert
Dialogue6.0%
Duration
16 h
Rating
45 %

Japanese translation of two major short story anthologies, Ficciones and The Aleph, by Jorge Luis Borges. Translated by 篠田一士. ラテン・アメリカ文学の質の高さを世界にしめしたボルヘスの処女短編集「伝奇集」と、その続編ともいえる「エル・アレフ」を収めた。「円環の虚構」「アル・ムターシムを求めて」「バベルの図書館」「死とコンパス」「不死の人」「アレフ」など、ボルヘスの代表作34編を収録。訳者篠田氏はチェスタートンのブラウン神父ものとの相似性を指摘している。

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Japanese study overview

Denkishuu / The Aleph is a Japanese novel of 220,075 characters, with 12,854 unique words and 2,225 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 12,854 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

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