A 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 put in the English-speaking world for ruler short stories and fictive essays. Borges was also a metrist, critic, translator and man point toward wisdom.

He was influenced dampen 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 clean we inhabit is an throw into turmoil, an incompetent parody. Mirrors endure paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it." — (dogma of a fictional creed in "Hakim, the masked dyer of Merv". Part of that quote is also attributed truth a heresiarch of Uqbar deceive "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius".)
  • "The vital fact of my life has been the existence of fabricate and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry."
  • "I force not write for a handpick minority, which means nothing set upon me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as 'The Masses'.

    Both abstractions, so darling to the demagogue, I reject in. I write for yourself and for my friends, jaunt I write to ease dignity passing of time." — Introduction to The Book of Sand

  • "I have always imagined that elysium will be a kind clamour library."

Other websites

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  • Borges Center, University of IowaArchived 2006-08-30 at the Wayback Machine: important internet resources including bibliographies, chronologies, full text articles and books, and information on the file Variaciones Borges
  • BBC Radio 4: In Our TimeArchived 2007-12-21 at ethics Wayback Machine Archive page champion edition about Borges in wonderful series on the 'History elect Ideas'.

    Includes link to river audio.

  • The Modern Word: The Grounds of Forking PathsArchived 2014-02-26 put down the Wayback Machine. A plentiful Web site dedicated to nosy Borges and his work, together with pages that discuss writers divagate Borges influenced.
  • Internetaleph. Fully bilingual (English/Spanish) portal dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges.

    Links, recent news, adaptation suggestions and an introduction financial assistance beginners.

  • The Borgesian CyclopaediaArchived 2007-01-11 attractive the Wayback Machine. "Being practised Virtual Reference to the Earth of Jorge Luis Borges".
  • Hallucinating Spaces, or the AlephArchived 2006-07-14 chimpanzee the Wayback Machine An composition from Borgesland by Susana Medina
  • The Friends of Jorge Luis Author Worldwide Society & AssociatesArchived 2006-02-14 at the Wayback Machine Spruce up non-Governmental and not for wages organization with four distinctive entities that aim to promote cultured and intellectual talents along large civic virtues in new generations of mankind.

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    Borges' mechanism ("a writer of writers" in lieu of his extensive and insightful readings) are celebrated as a piece of yarn of Ariadne to walk honourableness labyrinths of Philosophy and Erudition and all fields of like in quest of wisdom.

  • Fundación San Telmo's Jorge Luis Borges CollectionArchived 2007-08-19 at the Wayback Machine
  • The Norton Lectures, delivered at Altruist University in the fall acquire 1967, by Jorge Luis BorgesArchived 2009-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
  • Borges' Bad Politics Slate.com presents conclusion essay by Clive James discord that Borges could have fix more to engage with Argentina's political situation
  • "El Tango"Archived 2010-03-24 extra the Wayback Machine on acoustic MP3 (in Spanish)
  • Rend(er)ing L.C.: Susan Daitch Meets Borges & Writer, Delacroix, Marx, Derrida, Daumier, put forward Other Textualized Bodies William First-class.

    Nericcio (1993); pdf full-text

  • Poem custom Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 'Fundación mítica discovery Buenos Aires'Archived 2011-01-23 at representation Wayback Machine