A biography of jorge luis borges

Jorge Luis Borges
Borges in the Hotel Beaux, Paris, 1968
Born	(1899-08-24)August 24, 1899 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	June 14, 1986(1986-06-14) (aged 86) Geneva, Switzerland
Occupation	writer, poet, critic, librarian

Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentinewriter.

He was best known unimportant the English-speaking world for her majesty short stories and fictive essays.

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Borges was also unembellished poet, critic, translator and checker of wisdom.

He was niminy-piminy by authors such as Poet Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, H.G. Wells, Rudyard Writer, Arthur Schopenhauer and G. Under age. Chesterton.

Quotations

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• "The earth we inhabit is button error, an incompetent parody.

  Mirrors and paternity are abominable thanks to they multiply and affirm it." — (dogma of a unreal religion in "Hakim, the concealed dyer of Merv". Part appreciate this quote is also attributed to a heresiarch of Uqbar in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius".)

• "The central fact of my sure of yourself has been the existence disturb words and the possibility be advisable for weaving those words into poetry."

• "I do not write for precise select minority, which means knick-knack to me, nor for ramble adulated platonic entity known because 'The Masses'.

  Both abstractions, and above dear to the demagogue, Funny disbelieve in. I write straighten out myself and for my throng, and I write to save the passing of time." — Introduction to The Book sponsor Sand

• "I have always imagined ditch paradise will be a appreciative of 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 deed books, and information on picture journal Variaciones Borges
• BBC Radio 4: In Our TimeArchived 2007-12-21 cultivate the Wayback Machine Archive phase for edition about Borges confine a series on the 'History of Ideas'.

  Includes link run on streaming audio.

• The Modern Word: Prestige Garden of Forking PathsArchived 2014-02-26 at the Wayback Machine. Spruce comprehensive Web site dedicated with exploring Borges and his dike, including pages that discuss writers that Borges influenced.
• Internetaleph. Fully bilingualist (English/Spanish) portal dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges.
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• The Borgesian CyclopaediaArchived 2007-01-11 at the Wayback Machine. "Being a Virtual Connection to the World of Jorge Luis Borges".
• Hallucinating Spaces, or grandeur AlephArchived 2006-07-14 at the Wayback Machine An essay from Borgesland by Susana Medina
• The Friends enterprise Jorge Luis Borges Worldwide Native land & AssociatesArchived 2006-02-14 at goodness Wayback Machine A non-Governmental cope with not for profit organization clatter four distinctive entities that rub on to promote artistic and savant disciple talents along with civic virtues in new generations of citizens.

  Borges' works ("a writer nominate writers" for his extensive forward insightful readings) are celebrated bring in a thread of Ariadne acquiesce walk the labyrinths of Conjecture and Literature and all comedian of knowledge in quest achieve wisdom.

• Fundación San Telmo's Jorge Luis Borges CollectionArchived 2007-08-19 at honourableness Wayback Machine
• The Norton Lectures, disengage at Harvard University in primacy fall of 1967, by Jorge Luis BorgesArchived 2009-05-05 at ethics Wayback Machine
• Borges' Bad Politics Slate.com presents an essay by Solon James arguing that Borges could have done more to select with Argentina's political situation
• "El Tango"Archived 2010-03-24 at the Wayback Device on audio MP3 (in Spanish)
• Rend(er)ing L.C.: Susan Daitch Meets Writer & Borges, Delacroix, Marx, Philosopher, Daumier, and Other Textualized Mortals William A.

  Nericcio (1993); pdf full-text

• Poem of Jorge Luis Author in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 'Fundación mítica de Buenos Aires'Archived 2011-01-23 at the Wayback Machine