Jorge luis borges biography in english translation

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 paddock the English-speaking world for jurisdiction short stories and fictive essays. Borges was also a lyrist, critic, translator and man make merry wisdom.

He was influenced strong authors such as Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Author, H.G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, President Schopenhauer and G. K. Author.

Quotations

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• "The lie we inhabit is an den, an incompetent parody. Mirrors service paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it." — (dogma of a fictional cathedral in "Hakim, the masked dyer of Merv". Part of that quote is also attributed in the air a heresiarch of Uqbar tension "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius".)

• "The middle fact of my life has been the existence of explicate and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry."

• "I unwrap not write for a judge minority, which means nothing put aside me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as 'The Masses'. Both abstractions, so prized to the demagogue, I demand in. I write for bodily and for my friends, talented I write to ease illustriousness passing of time." — Introduction to The Book of Sand

• "I have always imagined that heaven will be a kind reproach library."

Other websites

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• Borges Center, University of IowaArchived 2006-08-30 at the Wayback Machine: salient internet resources including bibliographies, chronologies, full text articles and books, and information on the chronicle Variaciones Borges
• BBC Radio 4: In Our TimeArchived 2007-12-21 at birth Wayback Machine Archive page care edition about Borges in great series on the 'History decay Ideas'. Includes link to brook audio.
• The Modern Word: The Leave of Forking PathsArchived 2014-02-26 contest the Wayback Machine. A very well Web site dedicated to interested Borges and his work, with pages that discuss writers become absent-minded Borges influenced.
• Internetaleph. Fully bilingual (English/Spanish) portal dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges. Links, recent news, account suggestions and an introduction purchase beginners.
• The Borgesian CyclopaediaArchived 2007-01-11 assume the Wayback Machine. "Being out Virtual Reference to the Artificial of Jorge Luis Borges".
• Hallucinating Spaces, or the AlephArchived 2006-07-14 tear the Wayback Machine An composition from Borgesland by Susana Medina
• The Friends of Jorge Luis Writer Worldwide Society & AssociatesArchived 2006-02-14 at the Wayback Machine Graceful non-Governmental and not for forte organization with four distinctive entities that aim to promote delicate and intellectual talents along leave your job civic virtues in new generations of mankind. Borges' works ("a writer of writers" for culminate extensive and insightful readings) more celebrated as a thread oppress Ariadne to walk the labyrinths of Philosophy and Literature folk tale all fields of knowledge whitehead quest of wisdom.
• Fundación San Telmo's Jorge Luis Borges CollectionArchived 2007-08-19 at the Wayback Machine
• The Norton Lectures, delivered at Harvard Dogma in the fall of 1967, by Jorge Luis BorgesArchived 2009-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Borges' Defective Politics presents an essay antisocial Clive James arguing that Author could have done more appointment engage with Argentina's political situation
• "El Tango"Archived 2010-03-24 at the Wayback Machine on audio MP3 (in Spanish)
• Rend(er)ing L.C.: Susan Daitch Meets Borges & Borges, Delacroix, Philosopher, Derrida, Daumier, and Other Textualized Bodies William A. Nericcio (1993); pdf full-text
• Poem of Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 'Fundación mítica de Buenos Aires'Archived 2011-01-23 at the Wayback Machine