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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.
Dreamtigers (El Hacedor, "The Maker", 1960) is a collection of poems, short essays and literary sketches by the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. Divided fairly evenly between prose and verse, the collection examines the limitations of creativity. Borges regarded Dreamtigers as his most personal work.
They make it finally possible, after all these years, to give Borges his due and to add North Americans to his wide public." [3] In 2012, the novelist Jake Arnott observed in The Independent: Like many of my generation, I first encountered him in the Penguin edition of Labyrinths, a collection of stories, essays, parables and poetry. An ...
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.
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.
However it is doubtful that Nadine Stair ever existed. Just how Nadine Stair came to attributed as the author is unknown. Nonetheless, what is known, is that Sandar Martz produced an anthology of poems dealing with women and aging. [6] In this anthology she attributes Don Herold's poem, with some modifications, to a certain Nadine Stair.
"The Garden of Forking Paths" (original Spanish title: "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan") is a 1941 short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is the title story in the collection El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941), which was republished in its entirety in Ficciones ( Fictions ) in 1944.
In a postscript to the story, Borges explains that Daneri's house was ultimately demolished, but that a selection from Daneri's epic poem was eventually published and that Daneri himself won second place for the Argentine National Prize for Literature as a result. He also states his belief that the Aleph in Daneri's house was "a false Aleph".