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Jorge Guillermo Borges Haslam (24 February 1874 – 14 February 1938) was an Argentine lawyer, teacher, writer, philosopher and translator. He was also an anarchist and a follower of Herbert Spencer 's philosophy of philosophical anarchism. He was Jorge Luis Borges 's father.
Jorge Guillermo Borges Haslam (Paraná, 24 de febrero de 1874-Buenos Aires, 14 de febrero de 1938) fue un escritor, abogado, traductor, maestro y anarquista filosófico spenceriano argentino de ascendencia uruguaya. [1]
My father, Jorge Guillermo Borges, worked as a lawyer. He was a philosophical anarchist—a disciple of Spencer— and also a teacher of psychology at the Normal School for Modern Languages, where he gave his course in English, using as his text William James’s shorter book of psycholo- gy. My father’s English came from the fact that his moth-
Jul 18, 2023 · Much of this work—he published nearly forty books after he went blind—was done by his elderly mother, Leonor, with whom he lived until her death at ninety-nine, and who had done the same work for Borges’s father, Jorge Guillermo Borges, a writer who also went blind in middle age.
Sep 23, 2021 · In the crisis unleashed by the death of Dr Jorge Guillermo Borges we find a pattern — comprising father, son, and the spirit of a third person — which reappears in shifting guises and combinations in a range of texts preceding and following ‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote’.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (/ ˈ b ɔːr h ɛ s / BOR-hess, 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.
Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer who is considered one of the foremost figures in world literature of the twentieth century. Borges' reputation rests primarily on his complex and startlingly original short stories.
