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Jorge Guillermo Borges Haslam (24 February 1874 – 14 February 1938) was an Argentine lawyer, teacher, writer, philosopher and translator. He was also an anarchist and a follower of Herbert Spencer 's philosophy of philosophical anarchism .
Silas Haslam—Entirely fictional, but based on Borges' English ancestors. "Haslam" was Borges's paternal grandmother's maiden name. [ 19 ] In the story, besides the 1874 History of the Land Called Uqbar , a footnote informs us that Haslam is also the author of A General History of Labyrinths ( labyrinths as well as playfully fake literary ...
Borges's own father, Jorge Guillermo Borges Haslam, was a lawyer and wrote the novel El caudillo in 1921. Borges Haslam was born in Entre Ríos of Spanish, Portuguese, and English descent, the son of Francisco Borges Lafinur, a colonel, and Frances Ann Haslam, an Englishwoman. Borges Haslam grew up speaking English at home.
William Haslam (clergyman) (1818–1905), the English parson who was converted by his own sermon, author of several books; William Haslam (1850–1898), South Australian politician; Jorge Guillermo Borges Haslam (1874–1938), Argentine lawyer, teacher and philosopher, also notable for being Jorge Luis Borges's father
Borges (Spanish:, European Portuguese: [ˈbɔɾʒɨʃ]) is a Portuguese and Spanish surname. Jorge Luis Borges , the most notable person with this name, notes that his family name, like Burgess in English, means "of the town", "bourgeois".
Borges' father, Jorge Guillermo Borges Haslam, had been a close companion to Macedonio and attended law school with him. Upon graduating law school, Macedonio, the elder Borges, and companion Julio Molina y Vedia hatched a plan to found a utopian colony based on the anarchist principles of Élisée Reclus .
In his essay, Borges compares this classification with one allegedly used at the time by the Institute of Bibliography in Brussels, which he considers similarly chaotic. Borges says the Institute divides the universe in 1000 sections, of which number 262 is about the Pope , ironically classified apart from section 264, that on the Roman ...
"The House of Asterion" (original Spanish title: "La casa de Asterión") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in 1947 in the literary magazine Los Anales de Buenos Aires and republished in Borges's short story collection The Aleph in 1949.