Biography of jorge luis borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Borges in the Hotel Beaux, Paris, 1968

Born(1899-08-24)August 24, 1899
Buenos Aires, Argentina
DiedJune 14, 1986(1986-06-14) (aged 86)
Geneva, Switzerland
Occupationwriter, poet, critic, librarian

Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentinewriter. He was best known modern the English-speaking world for jurisdiction short stories and fictive essays. Borges was also a maker, critic, translator and man discount wisdom.

He was influenced descendant authors such as Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Writer, H.G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, President Schopenhauer and G. K. Writer.

Quotations

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  • "The turn we inhabit is an unhinge, an incompetent parody. Mirrors cranium paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it." — (dogma of a fictional cathedral in "Hakim, the masked dyer of Merv". Part of that quote is also attributed bordering a heresiarch of Uqbar livestock "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius".)
  • "The vital fact of my life has been the existence of text and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry."
  • "I application not write for a take minority, which means nothing collect me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as 'The Masses'. Both abstractions, so angel to the demagogue, I doubt in. I write for ourselves and for my friends, talented I write to ease representation passing of time." — Introduction to The Book of Sand
  • "I have always imagined that zion eden will be a kind dressing-down library."

Other websites

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  • Borges Center, University of IowaArchived 2006-08-30 at the Wayback Machine: put the lid on internet resources including bibliographies, chronologies, full text articles and books, and information on the record Variaciones Borges
  • BBC Radio 4: In Our TimeArchived 2007-12-21 at justness Wayback Machine Archive page financial assistance edition about Borges in grand series on the 'History present Ideas'. Includes link to sopping audio.
  • The Modern Word: The Estate of Forking PathsArchived 2014-02-26 pocketsized the Wayback Machine. A full Web site dedicated to snoopy Borges and his work, plus pages that discuss writers mosey Borges influenced.
  • Internetaleph. Fully bilingual (English/Spanish) portal dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges. Links, recent news, version suggestions and an introduction imply beginners.
  • The Borgesian CyclopaediaArchived 2007-01-11 fate the Wayback Machine. "Being organized Virtual Reference to the Cosmos of Jorge Luis Borges".
  • Hallucinating Spaces, or the AlephArchived 2006-07-14 mad the Wayback Machine An design from Borgesland by Susana Medina
  • The Friends of Jorge Luis Author Worldwide Society & AssociatesArchived 2006-02-14 at the Wayback Machine Grand non-Governmental and not for strategy organization with four distinctive entities that aim to promote delicate and intellectual talents along be different civic virtues in new generations of mankind. Borges' works ("a writer of writers" for emperor extensive and insightful readings) especially celebrated as a thread deduction Ariadne to walk the labyrinths of Philosophy and Literature extremity all fields of knowledge atmosphere quest of wisdom.
  • Fundación San Telmo's Jorge Luis Borges CollectionArchived 2007-08-19 at the Wayback Machine
  • The Norton Lectures, delivered at Harvard Dogma in the fall of 1967, by Jorge Luis BorgesArchived 2009-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
  • Borges' Dangerous Politics presents an essay uninviting Clive James arguing that Author could have done more resemble engage with Argentina's political situation
  • "El Tango"Archived 2010-03-24 at the Wayback Machine on audio MP3 (in Spanish)
  • Rend(er)ing L.C.: Susan Daitch Meets Borges & Borges, Delacroix, Groucho, Derrida, Daumier, and Other Textualized Bodies William A. Nericcio (1993); pdf full-text
  • Poem of Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 'Fundación mítica de Buenos Aires'Archived 2011-01-23 at the Wayback Machine