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Borges was born August 24, 1899, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1914, Borges's family moved to Switzerland where he studied at the Collège de Genève. The family traveled widely in Europe, including stays in Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals.
Borges regarded Dreamtigers as his most personal work. In the view of Mortimer Adler, editor of the Great Books of the Western World series, the collection was a masterpiece of 20th-century literature. Literary critic Harold Bloom includes it in his Western Canon. The original Spanish title refers to the Scots word makar, meaning "poet". [1]
In addition to short stories for which he is most noted, Borges also wrote poetry, essays, screenplays, and literary criticism, and edited numerous anthologies. His longest work of fiction is a fourteen-page story, "The Congress", first published in 1971. [11] His late-onset blindness strongly influenced his later writing.
Labyrinths (1962, 1964, 1970, 1983) is a collection of short stories and essays by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett.
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 ...
Moments (Spanish: Instantes) is the title of a text wrongly attributed to Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.It was widely spread through articles, compilations, posters and email chain letters, mainly in Spanish.
Borges, a Reader, 1977, written with Adolfo Bioy Casares. El oro de los tigres, 1972, poetry. English title: The Gold of the Tigers, Selected Later Poems, 1977. The English-language volume also includes poems from La Rosa Profunda. El libro de arena, 1975, short stories, English title: The Book of Sand, 1977. La Rosa Profunda, 1975, poetry.
Soon enough, Borges receives a note from Funes, requesting that the visitor lend him some of his Latin books and a dictionary. Borges, disconcerted, sends Funes what he deems the most difficult works "in order fully to undeceive him". Days later, Borges receives a telegram from Buenos Aires calling for his return due to his father's ill health ...