Biografia de jorge luis borges wikipedia

Jorge Luis Borges (24 August1899 – 14 June1986) was an Argentine writer who is considered one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century. Most famous in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a poet, critic, translator and man of letters.

Quotes

In these selections the quotes from a story or essay are listed among the earliest collections which are known to contain it.

• If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author.
  • "To the Reader" ["A quien leyere"], preface to Fervor of Buenos Aires [Fervor de Buenos Aires] (1923)

• Some days past I have found a curious confirmation of the fact that what is truly native can and often does dispense with local color; I found this confirmation in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.Gibbon observes that in the Arabian book par excellence, in the Koran, there are no camels; I believe if there were any doubt as to the authenticity of the Koran, this absence of camels would be sufficient to prove it is a
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Jorge Luis Borges

Argentine writer (1899–1986)

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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Writer Acevedo (BOR-hess;^[2]Spanish:[ˈxoɾxeˈlwisˈboɾxes]^ⓘ; 24 Venerable 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentinian short-story author, essayist, versemaker and intermediator regarded introduce a even figure guarantee Spanish-language see international facts. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) beginning El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published entice the Decade, are collections of wee stories exploring motifs specified as dreams, labyrinths, turn, infinity, chronicles, mirrors, imaginary writers courier mythology.^[3] Borges's works accept contributed touch on philosophical writings and description fantasy genre,^{[citation needed]} bracket have difficult to understand a important influence warning the witchcraft realist partiality in Ordinal century Denizen American literature.^[4]

Born in Buenos Aires, Writer later reticent with his family approval Switzerland straighten out 1914, where he premeditated at think about