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Signature. Jorge Luis Borges's voice. Recorded 1962. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ( / ˈbɔːrhɛs / BOR-hess, [2] Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ⓘ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.
Jun 10, 2024 · Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose works became classics of 20th-century world literature. Among his best-known works are the short-story collections Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph, and Other Stories, 1933–1969 (1970).
5. ‘ The Circular Ruins ’. First published in 1940, this is one of the most richly symbolic short stories by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. One of his most powerful and suggestive explorations of the nature of reality and dreams, ‘The Circular Ruins’ can variously be interpreted as a story about artistic creation or about the ...
Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges exerted a strong influence on the direction of literary fiction through his genre-bending metafictions, essays, and poetry. Borges was a founder, and principal practitioner, of postmodernist literature, a movement in which literature distances itself from life situations in favor of reflection on the creative process and critical self-examination.
May 8, 2018 · Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luís Borges was born in Buenos Aires on August 24, 1899, to middle-class parents from a family with a distinguished military background. His paternal grandmother was English, and young Jorge mastered English at an early age. They lived in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires, which at the time was a bit rough.
edit data. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories ...
Nov 27, 2023 · Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was an Argentine writer regarded as one of the foremost exponents of Argentine, Spanish-language and world literature of the twentieth century. His body of work, consisting of short stories, poems, and essays, displays an exceptionally high level of erudition and an unparalleled inventiveness, which has inspired ...
