ABSTRACT Paulo Coelho’s Aleph is a novel about ‘time’ and the human experience of time via Aleph, a magical point in the universe that renders possible time travel into the era of the Spanish Inquisition to witness the tragic process of condemning a group of young girls to death. The novel is also reminiscent of its precursor, ‘The Aleph,’ a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. In this essay, I briefly examine Coelho’s novel in respect to Borges’s short story and the Greek and Judeo-Christian conceptions of time. More extensively, I probe the complexity of Coelho’s depiction of time, the two modes of Aleph, and the experience of time and reincarnation by drawing upon Gilles Deleuze’s two diverse, albeit intersecting, approaches to time and its dimensions: the Chronos and Aion conceptions of time and the three syntheses of past, present, and future. As the novel delineates the contours of a shared experience of time by a Christian author and a young Muslim musician, I investigate how Aleph, in Coelho’s novel, functions as a perennial symbol of convergence and compassion among the followers of ostensibly irreconcilable religions.

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保罗·科埃略 (Paulo Coelho) 的《阿莱夫》(Aleph) 中的时间和永恒哲学

摘要 Paulo Coelho 的 Aleph 是一部关于“时间”和人类通过 Aleph 体验时间的小说，Aleph 是宇宙中的一个神奇点，它使时​​间旅行成为可能，进入西班牙宗教裁判所时代，见证谴责一群年轻女孩的悲惨过程到死。这部小说还让人想起了它的前身“阿莱夫”，这是豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯的短篇小说。在这篇文章中，我从博尔赫斯的短篇小说以及希腊和犹太-基督教的时间观念方面简要地考察了科埃略的小说。更广泛地，我通过借鉴吉尔·德勒兹对时间及其维度的两种不同但交叉的方法：Chronos 和 Aion 概念，探讨了 Coelho 对时间描述的复杂性、Aleph 的两种模式以及时间和轮回的体验。时间和过去、现在和未来的三种综合。