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 (19
They do not dine alone, however, but in the company of the Cuban novelist Virgilio Piñera (Rene’s Flesh, Cold Stories), the Argentine writer Rodolfo Wilcock (The Temple of Iconoclasts) and two others. There is a discussion about Bioy Casares’ reluctance to lecture in public. Borges ...
Borges invented other authors besides Ménard and his bio-bibliographical narrator. Borges and his life-long friend Adolfo Bioy Casares came up with Honorio Bustos Domecq, a fictitious detective under whose name they wrote numerous short stories and through whom they introduced other fictitious authors...
Featured in:Quotes About Stories 5 0 Download 7 Wallpapers 44. “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” —Jorge Luis Borges 5 0 Download 10 Wallpapers 45. “Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all...
作者: AJ Pinchuk 摘要: Jorge Luis Borges lived from 1899 to 1986. He wrote many stories about people and life in South America.关键词: Iraq reconstruction Government Spending Defense Department Military Management Mission DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8705.1979.tb01725.x ...
This section of The Garden of Forking Paths explores films related to Borges, from adaptations to documentaries about his life. It does not attempt to enumerate the many films that contain Borges quotations or have been labeled “Borgesian” by critics. ...
Despite his reputation as an erudite weaver of philosophical puzzles, the focus of much of Borges's life and work is the popular or even the vulgar: the gaucho code; the exploits of Buenos Aires hoodlums; pirates, cowboys, and gangsters; detective stories and other genre works; classical ...
Discusses Borges’s stories as allegories of the construction of metaphor, the imaginative apprehension of reality, and the nature of thought. Williamson, Edwin. Borges: A Life. New York: Viking, 2004. Drawing on interviews and extensive research, the most comprehensive and well-reviewed Borges ...
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The voice of the blind man is the essential Borges. Those who have heard him or read him remain affected for life. Willis Barnstone, ed. 2013. Borges at Eighty: Conversations. New Directions. The works of the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges almost defy classification. His stories of...