Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges (Buenos Aires, August 24, 1899 – June 14, Geneva, 1986) was an Argentine poet and writer. He is counted among the most important writers of thetwentieth century. Mario Vargas Llosa Nobel Prize called him ' the largest Spanish-language writer since Cervantes'. His work has been of decisive influence on the rise of the Spanish-American literature in the second half of the twentieth century.



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[hide] *1 life and work  ==Life and work[ Edit] == ====Early life[ Edit] ==== Borges was born into a well-to-do middle class family in Buenos Aires. His father was Professor of English and of his mother he got early on his first literary texts to read. At the age of seven years he told his father that he wanted to become a writer and this is then always continue to support him in this. The family went to Europe In 1914 and settled, after Paris and to have visited Italy, in Geneva. Borges came in contact with the school in French literature, which had strong influence on him. In 1919 the family moved to Spain and lived successively in Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Seville and Madrid. There he learned the Spanish classics common ( Cervantes,Quevedo) came in contact with the avant-garde environment and learned there among other things the well-known critic Guillermo de Torre, which later with his sister married.
 * 1.1 early life
 * 1.2 fantastic stories
 * 1.3 Later Life
 * 2 Bibliography
 * 2.1 together with Adolfo Bioy Casares
 * 2.2 biography in Dutch
 * 2.3 translations in Dutch
 * Nuts 3
 * 4 Sources
 * 5 secondary literature
 * 6 external links

In 1921 his family back to Buenos Aires, where Borges with new eyes to his hometown looked. He soon gained a prominent place in the literary environment there; in the 1920s he was involved with the creation of a number of leading modernist literary magazines and published poems and essays. In his early years he wrote three volumes of poetry. In 1930, she published his biography of the poet Evaristo Carriego. Borges, Hôtel des Beaux Arts, Paris 1969====Fantastic stories[ Edit] ==== Borges, who never wrote a novel, is famous for his fantastic stories. In 1935, his Historia universal de la infamia bundle (World Chronicle of shame), in 1941 El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (the garden of forking paths) and in 1944 Ficciones (fantastic tales, also the previous bundle including/understanding), with which he broke through internationally. In the same sometimes magical realistic style reminiscent of documentaries appeared in 1949 still El Aleph (Aleph). Almost casually he interweaves in these stories on extremely ingenious manner and in a crystal clear style reality and dream and he presents fundamental problems as a game, in which he often misleads the reader and ' confusing '. Fantasy and reality constantly by each other. Aware he creates a new perspective on reality, including through a blending of resources on which he relies: some of them are easy to figure out, others are completely apocryphal or so difficult to detect that the Reader constantly doubts the authenticity.

In particular, the impact his stories Borges late in seeing big ideas on man and small events: the vision of a person who sees the infinity for the first and only time. In so doing, he read between the lines, hidden connections and the immense, sometimes terrible implications to see through. There is constantly wonder about the potential of man and the universe.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The work of Borges, both his prose and his poetry, has an enlightened philosophical slant and is indebted to Hume, Schopenhauer, Kafka, but also to the idealism, the post structuralism and the Taoism. He also regularly complex mathematical concepts in his work, for example in his stories the library of Babel and the book of sand, in which he harks back to the set theory.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Typical of all his work is, notwithstanding the fact that reading it often requires a significant intellectual effort, the bright, light storytelling and humor. In his need to mystifyon, as well as his connection to Argentina and its history, which goes back over and over again. ====Later life<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Borges was in 1938 to work in the city library of Buenos Aires and in the same year, bumped his forehead so severe that he, after an initial recovery, slowly but surely went blind. In later life he dictated his work to his mother or to close friends, especially his bosom friend Adolfo Bioy Casares. Much of his later work, often with parodical impact, he wrote together with Casares. From 1960 he summarized, after a break of three decades, also closing back on and published ten volumes of poetry.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1946, a year after Perón came to power, lost his job because of the signing of Borges hit some manifestos against the dictator. After the fall of Peron in 1955 he became head of the national library, a year later professor of literature at the University of Buenos Aires and President of the Argentine writers ' Union. In 1976 he supported the coup in his country, but turned after the Falklands war of the junta off.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the 1970s and 1980s increased the fame of Borges to global proportions. He received a number of honorary doctorates and the national literary prize of the University of Cuyo. In 1971 he received the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. The Nobel Prize in literature, he has never received, to his displeasure to been suggested for his conservative views.

<p lang="en" len="65" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Almost the entire work of Borges is translated in Dutch. ==Bibliography<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Borges later in life*Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923) ===Together with Adolfo Bioy Casares<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Biography in Dutch<span class="mw-editsection" len="351" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Translations in Dutch<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * Inquisiciones (1925)
 * Evaristo Carriego (1930)
 * Discusion (1932)
 * Historia universal de la infamia (1935)
 * La biblioteca de Babel (1941)
 * Pumas (1943)
 * El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941)
 * Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1944)
 * Ficciones (1944)
 * El Aleph (1949)
 * El Hacedor (1960)
 * El informe de Brodie (1970)
 * El oro de los tigres (1972)
 * El libro de arena (1975)
 * Libro de sueños (1976)
 * Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (1942)
 * Dos fantasías memorables (1946)
 * Un modelo para la muerte (1946)
 * Cuentos breves y extraordinarios (1955)
 * Los orilleros (1955). movie script
 * El paraíso de los creyentes (1955). movie script
 * Libro del cielo y del infierno (1960)
 * Cronicas de Bustos Domecq (1967)
 * Invasión (1969). movie script
 * Les autres (1974). movie script
 * Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq (1977)
 * As The Writer Jorge Luis Borges Biography Of A Philosopher-Inner Robert Lemm(2005), ISBN 978-905-911-260-5.
 * The Aleph and other stories (1964), vert. Annie Sillevis, ISBN 90-234-0555-2. Selection from El Aleph and Ficciones. Contains: The Aleph, the immortal, the other death, Deutsches Requiem, the search of Averroes, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, the circular ruins, the library of Babel, the form of the sword, Judas three times and the South.
 * The Zahir (1967), vert. Annie Sillevis, ISBN 90-234-0793-8. Selection from El Aleph and Ficciones.
 * Six riddles for Parodi (1968), transl. h. Venter and t. de Lange, ISBN 6842890144. Translation of Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi.
 * World Chronicle Of Shame (1970), vert. Annie Sillevis, ISBN 90-214-9455-8. Translation of Historia universal de la infamia.
 * The Chronicles of Bustos Domecq (1971), trans. j. Lechner. Translation of Cronicas the Bustos Domecq.
 * The book of imaginary beings (1976) ISBN 90-234-0543-9. Translation of El libro de los seres imaginarios.
 * The book of sand (1977), vert. D7ooomi – 1981, ISBN 978-90-234-0579-5. Translation of El libro de arena.
 * The rose of Paracelsus and Blue Tigers (1982) vert. Barber van de Pol, ISBN 90-234-0795-4. Two stories, translation of Rosa y Azul.
 * Seven nights (1983), vert. Barber van de Pol, ISBN 978-90-234-0812-3. Translation of Siete noches.
 * The history of eternity and other essays (1985), vert. Barber van de Pol, ISBN 978-90-234-6193-7. Translation of Historia de la eternidad.
 * The secret code and other poems (1984), transl. Robert Lemm, ISBN 978-90-234-4596-8.
 * The maker (1988), vert. Barber van de Pol, ISBN 90-234-3083-2. Translation of El hacedor.
 * The cult of the book and other essays (1990), vert. Barber van de Pol, ISBN 978-90-234-1540-4.
 * The Aleph and other stories (1998), vert. Barber van de Pol, ISBN 978-90-234-5810-4. Translation of Historia universal de la infamia, Ficciones and El Aleph.
 * The report of Brodie and other stories 1981 – D7ooomi (1998), transl. and Barber van de Pol, ISBN 90-234-6192-4. Translation of El informe de Brodie.
 * All poems (2011), vert. Barber van de Pol and Maarten Salah, ISBN 978-90-234-6461-7.