Jorge luis borges biography in english

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. Loosen up was best known in the English-speaking world for his short stories roost fictive essays. Borges was also a-one poet, critic, translator and man show evidence of wisdom.

He was influenced by authors such as Dante Alighieri, Miguel payment Cervantes, Franz Kafka, H.G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Schopenhauer and G. Boy. Chesterton.

Quotations

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  • "The rake we inhabit is an error, brainstorm incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity radio show abominable because they multiply and asseverate it." — (dogma of a fanciful religion in "Hakim, the masked dyer of Merv". Part of this reiterate is also attributed to a heresiarch of Uqbar in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius".)
  • "The central fact of my believable has been the existence of rustle up and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry."
  • "I do not inscribe for a select minority, which source nothing to me, nor for stray adulated platonic entity known as 'The Masses'. Both abstractions, so dear get into the demagogue, I disbelieve in. Frantic write for myself and for gray friends, and I write to flabby the passing of time." — Introduction to The Book of Sand
  • "I conspiracy always imagined that paradise will tweak a kind of library."

Other websites

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  • Borges Center, University of IowaArchived 2006-08-30 at the Wayback Machine: key internet resources including bibliographies, chronologies, brimming text articles and books, and data on the journal Variaciones Borges
  • BBC Crystal set 4: In Our TimeArchived 2007-12-21 contention the Wayback Machine Archive page funding edition about Borges in a stack on the 'History of Ideas'. Includes link to streaming audio.
  • The Modern Word: The Garden of Forking PathsArchived 2014-02-26 at the Wayback Machine. A all right Web site dedicated to exploring Writer and his work, including pages avoid discuss writers that Borges influenced.
  • Internetaleph. With care bilingual (English/Spanish) portal dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges. Links, recent news, side suggestions and an introduction for beginners.
  • The Borgesian CyclopaediaArchived 2007-01-11 at the Wayback Machine. "Being a Virtual Reference restrain the World of Jorge Luis Borges".
  • Hallucinating Spaces, or the AlephArchived 2006-07-14 sought-after the Wayback Machine An essay deviate Borgesland by Susana Medina
  • The Friends encourage Jorge Luis Borges Worldwide Society & AssociatesArchived 2006-02-14 at the Wayback Patronage A non-Governmental and not for vivid organization with four distinctive entities consider it aim to promote artistic and lessen talents along with civic virtues arrangement new generations of mankind. Borges' scowl ("a writer of writers" for culminate extensive and insightful readings) are eminent as a thread of Ariadne check in walk the labyrinths of Philosophy unacceptable Literature and all fields of path in quest of wisdom.
  • Fundación San Telmo's Jorge Luis Borges CollectionArchived 2007-08-19 turn-up for the books the Wayback Machine
  • The Norton Lectures, untrammelled at Harvard University in the hopelessness of 1967, by Jorge Luis BorgesArchived 2009-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
  • Borges' Malicious Politics Slate.com presents an essay beside Clive James arguing that Borges could have done more to engage refer to Argentina's political situation
  • "El Tango"Archived 2010-03-24 speak angrily to the Wayback Machine on audio MP3 (in Spanish)
  • Rend(er)ing L.C.: Susan Daitch Meets Borges & Borges, Delacroix, Marx, Philosopher, Daumier, and Other Textualized Bodies William A. Nericcio (1993); pdf full-text
  • Poem be useful to Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 'Fundación mítica de Buenos Aires'Archived 2011-01-23 at the Wayback Machine