Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Jorge Borges of Cape Verde
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Jorge Luis Borges was born to an educated middle class family.
Isidoro de Acevedo Laprida died of pulmonary congestion in the house where his grandson Jorge Luis Borges was born.
While Beckett was well-known and respected in the English-speaking world, Borges was unknown and untranslated.
Though reputed to be a perennial contender, Borges was never awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature - one of the several distinguished authors who were never awarded one.
The fictional Borges is appalled by this turn of events, an element in the story that critics Emir Rodríguez Monegal and Alastair Reid argue is to be read as a metaphor for the totalitarianism already sweeping across Europe at the time of the story's writing.
As the story ends, Borges is focused on an obsession of his own: a translation of Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Burial into Spanish.
At one point Borges has Adolfo Bioy Casares propose to "write a novel in the first person, using a narrator who omitted or corrupted what happened and who ran into various contradictions," which arguably anticipates the strategy of Nabokov's Lolita (1955) and precisely anticipates the strategy of his Pale Fire (1962.
In the context of the imagined world of Tlön, Borges describes a school of literary criticism that arbitrarily assumes that two works are by the same person and, based on that, deduces things about the imagined author.
At the end Borges is working on a "tentative translation" of an English-language work into Spanish, while the power of the ideas of "a scattered dynasty of solitaries" remakes the world in the image of Tlön.
Although the culture of Uqbar described by Borges is fictional, there are two real places with similar names.
Drieu La Rochelle, who was to commit suicide after becoming infamous for his collaboration with the Nazis during the Occupation of France, was one of the few foreign contributors to Sur, Victoria Ocampo's Argentine journal to which Borges was a regular contributor.
Presumably, Borges is acknowledging where he got the idea for this imaginary family of languages.
Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a poet, critic, translator and man of letters.
Born in Buenos Aires, the son of a teacher, Borges was educated in Geneva, Switzerland, and lived briefly in Spain.
During these years Borges turned from poetry to the short narrative fiction for which he is now famous.
Dreamtigers by Jorge Borges is a collection of poems and short writings printed by the University of Texas after Borges yearlong visit in the 60s.
Widely regarded as one of the most important writers of the 20th century, Borges was influenced by Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, H.
Borges was not alone in this task.
In 1937, friends of Borges found him working at the Miguel Can branch of the Buenos Aires Municipal Library as a first assistant.
When Juan Pern became President in 1946, Borges was dismissed, and promoted to the position of poultry inspector for the Buenos Aires municipal market (he immediately resigned; he always referred to the title of the post he never filled as Poultry and Rabbit Inspector.
A story of Borges was first translated into English in the August 1948 issue of Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine; the story was The Garden of Forking Paths, the translator Anthony Boucher.
In 1967 Borges married the recently-widowed Elsa Astete Milln.
Though reputed to be a perennial contender, Borges was never awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Since Borges lived through most of the 20th century, he was rooted in the Modernist period of culture and literature, especially Symbolism.
As already mentioned, Borges was notable as a translator.
Borges was already familiar with the idea from Thomas Carlyles Sartor Resartus, a book-length review of a non-existent German transcendentalist philosophical work, and the biography of its equally non-existent author.
When extreme Argentine nationalists sympathetic to the Nazis asserted Borges was Jewish (the implication being that his Argentine identity was inadequate), Borges responded in Yo Judo (I, a Jew), where he said, while he would be proud to be a Jew, he presented his actual Christian genealogy, along with a backhanded reminder that any pure Castilian just might likely have a Jew in their ancestry, stemming from a millennium back.
In his prologue to Artificios, Borges says of El Fin, Everything in the story is implicit in a famous book and I have been the first to decipher it, or at least, to declare it.
Jorge Luis Borges is one of the great literary heroes of Argentina.
When Borges was nine years of age, he began his public schooling in Palermo, and in the same year, published his first literary undertaking - a translation into Spanish of Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince.
By 1919, when the family moved on to Spain, Borges had learned several languages and had begun to write and translate poetry.
In 1955, following the overthrow of the Peronist regime in Argentina, Borges was named director of the National Library in Buenos Aires.
Borges married Elsa Astete Millan in 1967 but was divorced in 1970.
A useful profile of Borges is in Selden Rodman, South America of the Poets (1970.
Borges was a founding figure of the ‘magical realist’ movement in South American fiction, and of postmodernism in literature.
Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges was born on this date in 1899.
Borges was named director of Argentina's National Library, was a professor of English at the University of Buenos Aires and was the founder of several journals.
Jorge Luis Borges was born on 24 August 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to an educated family descended from famous military figures in Argentina's history; in accordance with Argentine custom, he never used his entire name.
He died of pulmonary congestion in the same house in Serrano Street, Buenos Aires, where his grandson Jorge Luis Borges was born.
In this home, both Spanish and English were spoken and from earliest childhood Borges was bilingual, reading Shakespeare, in English, at the age of 12.
Jorge Guillermo Borges was forced into early retirement from the legal profession owing to the same failing eyesight that would eventually afflict his son, and in 1914, the family moved to Geneva, Switzerland.
Borges came into contact with several authors who would impact his writing, the work of Arthur Schopenhauer and Gustav Meyrink's The Golem (1915) being key examples.
A poet and an essayist, Borges is generally best-known for his fictional short stories.
Starting in 1937, Borges had been working at the Miguel Cané branch of the Buenos Aires Municipal Library as the first assistant.
Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs.
Jorge Luis Borges was our century's greatest miniaturist, perpetually cramming entire universes onto the head of a pin.
If Jorge Luis Borges had been a computer scientist, he probably would have invented hypertext and the World Wide Web.
At that time, they asked, Why create a Borges Center in a so faraway country? And why the University of Aarhus? Well, it is known that Jorge Luis Borges was 'mythically' attracted by the Nordic countries and to 'the words with which the rugged Nord sang its seas and its swords.
A symposium on Borges is planned for April 2007 (see associated part of this webpage.
Borges is also included in a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate courses.
anti-Reason, of which the other great exemplar was Leo Tolstoy.
Some of the conversations are with people with whom Borges has had something of a continuing relationship.
First of all, Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 24, 1899.
Even though the government was still military in nature, the SADE was reopened, and Borges was appointed Director of the National Library, But it turned out that the new government was just as abusive of power as any other traditional Argentine junta.
By this time Borges was going completely blind.
Borges had his own writing style out of a blend of many people's styles and somehow made it uniquely his own.
Borges has also mentioned that his Grandmother's dry English wit was the origin of his concise style.
Also the historian and philosopher George Steiner wrote, ''When he cites fictitious titles, imaginary cross-references, folios and writers that have never existed, Borges is simply regrouping counters of reality into the shape of possible other worlds.
Jorge Luis Borges was born on August 24, 1899 in Buenos Aries.
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A poet and an essayist, Borges is generally best-known for his short stories.
At his home, both Spanish and English were spoken, so from earliest childhood Borges was effectively bilingual, and learned to read in English before Spanish.
During his last years, Borges lived with Mar�a Kodama, with whom he had been studying Anglo-Saxon for a number of years, and who also served as his personal secretary.
When extreme Argentine nationalists sympathetic to the Nazis asserted Borges was Jewishthe implication being that his Argentine identity was inadequateBorges responded in "Yo Jud�o" ("I, a Jew"), where he indicated he would be proud to be a Jew, but presented his actual Christian genealogy (along with a backhanded reminder that any "pure Castilian" just might have a Jew in their ancestry a millennium back.
Borges had an English paternal grandmother who, around 1870, married the criollo Francisco Borges, a man with a military command and a historic role in the civil wars in what is now Argentina and Uruguay.
UK: Extensive study of English/Anglo Saxon literature; influenced by George Berkeley, Samuel Butler, G.
Borges was profoundly influenced by European culture, English literature, and such thinkers as Berkeley, who argued that there is no material substance; the sensible world consists only of ideas, which exists for so long as they are perceived.
Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires.
which was founded in 1931 by Victoria Ocampo.
Dr Cohen-Miller also noted that Borges was exaggerated sensitive, had guilt feeling and fear of sex.
Later Estela Canto, whom Borges met in 1944, wrote in Borges a contraluz (1989), that Borges's attitude toward sex was one of panic and terror.
In 1946 Borges took over the editorship of Los Annales de Buenos Aires, an academic magazine.
His last years Borges lived with Mara Kodama, his assistant; they married on 22 April in 1986.
Borges has told in an interview that when he was a boy, he found an engraving of the seven wonders of the world, one of which portrayed a circular labyrinth.
However, Borges has criticized his friend Pablo Neruda, a politically highly visible author, for denouncing all the South American dictators except Juan Pern, Borges's own arch-enemy.
In "The Garden of Forking Paths," Borges described "an infinite series of times, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times.
Borges is a unique literary voice in the twentieth century, whose work transcended easy classification as "modernist," yet whose loss of moral orientation remains distinctly modern.
At his home, both Spanish and English were spoken and from earliest childhood Borges was effectively bilingual.
Jorge Guillermo Borges was forced into early retirement from the legal profession owing to the same failing eyesight that would eventually afflict his son.
In 1933 Borges was appointed editor of the literary supplement of the newspaper Crítica, and it was there that the pieces later published in Historia universal de la infamia (A Universal History of Infamy) appeared.
Starting in 1937, friends of Borges found him work at the Miguel Cané branch of the Buenos Aires Municipal Library as a first assistant.
When Juan Perón came to power in 1946, Borges was effectively fired by being "promoted" to the position of poultry inspector for the Buenos Aires municipal market, from which he immediately resigned.
Especially in the late 1980s, when Borges was clearly growing old and infirm, the failure to award him the prize became a glaring omission.
Borges joined a distinguished list of non-winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, which includes Graham Greene, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and Leo Tolstoy, among others.
In the Spanish-speaking world, Borges is known as much if not more as a poet and essayist than as a fiction-writer.
Borges had to dictate all of his stories and poems to an amanuensis after he became blind, and the results are quite striking: while the early Borges' prose is often florid and exuberantly verbose, the later Borges' writing is remarkably spare and focused.
Borges is also famous for pioneering the field of "creative non-fiction," works that take the form of non-fiction (reportage, book reviews, and so on) to tell a fictional story.
While Borges was certainly the great popularizer of the review of an imaginary work, it was not his own invention.
Borges has been widely hailed as the foremost contemporary Spanish-American writer.
scholarship devoted to the work of Jorge Luis Borges has been an interest in the connection.
Jorge Luis Borges was one of those rare writers who can take even a bizarre, utterly unbelievable idea, and spin it into an exquisite little gem of prose.
Transport the Wachowski brothers to the 1930's and ask them to express their philosophy by way of short stories.
My knowledge of Borges is small; before purchasing Ficciones I had only read two or three of his short stories.
Note: A note for the non-Spanish speakers out there Jorge Luis Borges is pronounced HOR-hay LWEES BHOR-hays; and if one has the linguistic temerity, you can sound the g in Borges like a guttural German ch.
Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 24, 1899 the same year that Vladimir Nabokov was born.
Borges was terribly fond of both of his parents.
Although Colonel Borges was shot and killed in 1874, Grandmother Fanny was around to tell the young Jorge Luis Georgie many stories of the wild frontier days.
Borges has often remarked that his Grandmothers dry English wit was the origin of his concise style.
But despite his games with his sister and his relaxing summers in Adrogu, Borges has often remarked that he felt somewhat like an alien growing up.
Adopting an English style of dress in a predominantly anti-English school, wearing thick glasses, and already having a superior education, needless to say Borges was picked on relentlessly by the other students.
His philosophical ideas were complex and his writing style eccentric, and one of his biggest influences on Borges was to teach him to read everything with skepticism.
In 1923 the family returned to Switzerland so his father could continue his eye treatment, and in Spain Borges was disappointed to find that the ultraist movement had petered out; but while in Spain he managed to have a few of his poems published, and a favorable review of Fervor de Buenos Aires appeared in Revista de Occidente, a Spanish magazine.
Because of his European attachments and his reputation as an intellectual, Borges was assigned to the Florida group, a decision which he unsuccessfully appealed.
Although Borges was quite fond of Norah, she preferred the affections of a literary rival, a well-to-do extrovert named Oliverio Girondo.
Elsa Astete was a 20-year old beauty that Borges met in 1928 on a double-date with his friend and her older sister.
Published in Crtica, a local newspaper, Borges was sufficiently uncertain about his effort that it appeared under the pseudonym of Francisco Bustos, the name of one of his ancestors.
but Borges had no intentions of settling down as a mere writer of populist dramas.
Although Borges was finally coming into his own as a writer, the thirties were not a kind decade; the world was in an economic crisis, and Borges ailing father was now completely dependent on his mother.
Borges was the first to translate Woolf and Faulkner into Spanish.
Delighted at his new surge in creativity, he began writing stories in the basement of the library, and so while his co-workers above obliviously frittered away their time on gossip, Borges was busy in the basement planting the seeds of postmodernism.
In 1946 Juan Pern was elected president, and due to his political affiliations, Borges was promoted to Inspector of Poultry and Rabbits in the Public Markets.
In 1950 Borges was elected President of the Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (The Argentine Writers Society.
In 1955 the Revolucin Libertadora took place, and Borges was back in favor.
The SADE was reopened, and much to his amazement Borges was appointed Director of the National Library, the job of his dreams.
By this time Borges was going completely blind; interestingly two of the previous directors of the National Library had also been blind.
Unfortunately it was not a fulfilling marriage for either of them Elsa had grown used to a settled, married existence, and Borges was still too much the explorer.
Sometimes referred to by his initials, "JLB", Borges is best-known in the English-speaking world for his short stories.
From earliest childhood, Borges was effectively bilingual in English and Spanish, and learned to read in English before Spanish.
Jorge Guillermo Borges was forced into early retirement from the legal profession owing to the same failing eyesight that would eventually afflict Borges himself, and in 1914, the family moved to Geneva where Borges senior was treated by a Geneva eye specialist while Borges and his sister Norah (born 1902) attended school.
By 1940 Borges was established as a poet, essayist, and literary critic.
During his last years, Borges lived with Mar? Kodama, who also functioned as his personal secretary.
Borges lived through most of the twentieth century, and so was rooted in the Modernist period of culture and literature.
He also shared their multilingualism and their playfulness with language, but while Nabokov and Joyce tended, as their lives went on, toward progressively larger works, Borges remained a miniaturist.
As well as his own original work, Borges was notable as a translator into Spanish.
Prlogos con UN prlogo de prlogos, 1977, a collection of numerous book prologues Borges had written over the years.
Jorge Luis Borges is a man of many worlds and moods.
in the search might be painted in unexpected ways.