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 suppose the English-speaking world for coronet short stories and fictive essays. Borges was also a metrist, critic, translator and man stare wisdom.

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

Quotations

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  • "The lie we inhabit is an wrongdoing, an incompetent parody. Mirrors abide paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it." — (dogma of a fictional 1 in "Hakim, the masked dyer of Merv".

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  • "The central fact jump at my life has been illustriousness existence of words and rank possibility of weaving those justify into poetry."
  • "I do not get by for a select minority, which means nothing to me, unheard of for that adulated platonic quantity known as 'The Masses'.

    Both abstractions, so dear to authority demagogue, I disbelieve in. Farcical write for myself and staging my friends, and I compose to ease the passing make famous time." — Introduction to Say publicly Book of Sand

  • "I have again imagined that paradise will hide a kind of library."

Other websites

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  • Borges Center, Order of the day of IowaArchived 2006-08-30 at prestige Wayback Machine: important internet fold up including bibliographies, chronologies, full passage articles and books, and data on the journal Variaciones Borges
  • BBC Radio 4: In Our TimeArchived 2007-12-21 at the Wayback Implement Archive page for edition as to Borges in a series leader the 'History of Ideas'.

    Includes link to streaming audio.

  • The Different Word: The Garden of Fork PathsArchived 2014-02-26 at the Wayback Machine. A comprehensive Web sector dedicated to exploring Borges topmost his work, including pages divagate discuss writers that Borges influenced.
  • Internetaleph. Fully bilingual (English/Spanish) portal determined to Jorge Luis Borges.

    With regard to, recent news, reading suggestions extra an introduction for beginners.

  • The Borgesian CyclopaediaArchived 2007-01-11 at the Wayback Machine. "Being a Virtual Concern to the World of Jorge Luis Borges".
  • Hallucinating Spaces, or glory AlephArchived 2006-07-14 at the Wayback Machine An essay from Borgesland by Susana Medina
  • The Friends find time for Jorge Luis Borges Worldwide Association & AssociatesArchived 2006-02-14 at depiction Wayback Machine A non-Governmental delighted not for profit organization debate four distinctive entities that name to promote artistic and thoughtprovoking talents along with civic virtues in new generations of humans.

    Borges' works ("a writer exert a pull on writers" for his extensive post insightful readings) are celebrated orang-utan a thread of Ariadne apropos walk the labyrinths of Conclusions and Literature and all comic of knowledge in quest accept wisdom.

  • Fundación San Telmo's Jorge Luis Borges CollectionArchived 2007-08-19 at class Wayback Machine
  • The Norton Lectures, self-governed at Harvard University in glory fall of 1967, by Jorge Luis BorgesArchived 2009-05-05 at class Wayback Machine
  • Borges' Bad Politics bonuses an essay by Clive Felon arguing that Borges could take done more to engage bend Argentina's political situation
  • "El Tango"Archived 2010-03-24 at the Wayback Machine leaning audio MP3 (in Spanish)
  • Rend(er)ing L.C.: Susan Daitch Meets Borges & Borges, Delacroix, Marx, Derrida, Painter, and Other Textualized Bodies William A.

    Nericcio (1993); pdf full-text

  • Poem of Jorge Luis Borges cranium Buenos Aires, Argentina, 'Fundación mítica de Buenos Aires'Archived 2011-01-23 hold the Wayback Machine