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Jorge Luis Borges

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Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine author whose fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism transformed twentieth-century literature. His work repeatedly explores infinity, language, identity, time, memory, books, and labyrinths through densely allusive, often philosophical forms. He also worked as a translator, editor, lecturer, and librarian, and wrote in collaboration with other authors, notably Adolfo Bioy Casares, Margarita Guerrero, and María Esther Vázquez.

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Ficciones

The central short-story collection and the most widely recognized entry point to Borges's fiction.

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El Aleph

A representative collection combining his metaphysical, philosophical, and literary fiction.

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El hacedor

A concise introduction to the interplay of Borges's poetry and prose.

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Novels (1)
  1. El congreso

    novella · 1971

Nonfiction (9)
  1. Evaristo Carriego

    literary criticism · 1930

  2. Aspectos de la poesía gauchesca

    literary criticism · 1950

  3. Antiguas literaturas germánicas

    literary criticism · 1951

  4. El "Martín Fierro"

    literary criticism · 1953

  5. Leopoldo Lugones

    literary criticism · 1955

  6. Manual de zoología fantástica

    mythological-reference · 1957

    Jorge Luis Borges y Margarita Guerrero hacen una recreaci n de las experiencias literarias, filos ficas y aun teol gicas, de textos hist ricos y sagrados chinos e hind es o incluso europeos medievales, que recogen mitos y concepciones…

  7. Introducción a la literatura inglesa

    literary criticism · 1965

  8. Introducción a la literatura norteamericana

    literary criticism · 1967

  9. El libro de los seres imaginarios

    mythological-reference · 1967

Short fiction (8)
  1. Historia universal de la infamia

    short-story-collection · 1935

    In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified…

  2. El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan

    short-story-collection · 1941

  3. Ficciones

    short-story-collection · 1944

    A collection of his short stories in which Borges often uses the labyrinth as a literary device to expound his ideas on all aspects of human life and endeavor. ---------- Contains: [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis…

  4. El Aleph

    short-story-collection · 1949

    In Borges' story, the Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points. Anyone who gazes into it can see everything in the universe from every angle simultaneously, without distortion, overlapping, or confusion. The story traces…

  5. El informe de Brodie

    short-story-collection · 1970

  6. El libro de arena

    short-story-collection · 1975

    Un libro fundamental de Borges, «el escritor en español más importante desde Cervantes» (Mario Vargas Llosa), considerado por el autor su obra maestra, y que incluye su único relato de amor. «Borges es y debería ser el centro de nuestro…

  7. Rosa y Azul: La rosa de Paracelso; Tigres azules

    short-story-collection · 1977

  8. Veinticinco de agosto de 1983 y otros cuentos

    short-story-collection · 1983

Essays and speeches (11)
  1. Inquisiciones

    essays · 1925

  2. El tamaño de mi esperanza

    essays · 1926

    "Reedición del libro publicado originariamente en 1926 y cuya reedición fue prohibida por el autor. Resulta de gran interés puesto que prefigura los temas desarrollados posteriormente. Permite asimismo establecer grandes diferencias en…

  3. El idioma de los argentinos

    essays · 1928

  4. Discusión

    essays · 1932

  5. Historia de la eternidad

    essays · 1936

    En los tratados aquíreunidos, Borges habla de la esencia del tiempo, que se concreta bien en el mecanismo de una metáfora, bien en una refutación filosófica. El asunto es la coincidencia, la ocupación de un mismo lugar fí́sico o mental,…

  6. Otras inquisiciones

    essays · 1952

    Bundel met 35 korte essays door de auteur gepubliceerd in Argentijnse kranten en tijdschriften tussen 1937 en 1952. Deze door Borges zelf samengestelde bloemlezing verscheen in 1952 onder de titel 'Otras inquisiciones'. De eerste druk van…

  7. El lenguaje de Buenos Aires

    essays · 1963

  8. ¿Qué es el budismo?

    lectures · 1976

    es un libro sobre el busimo

  9. Borges, oral

    lectures · 1979

  10. Siete noches

    lectures · 1980

    Las sutiles y agudas reflexiones de Borges sobre los libros y los temas que lo apasionaron a lo largo de su vida se encuentran en estas conferencias que vieron su edici n impresa bajo el t tulo Siete noches. a lo largo de sus p ginas…

  11. Nueve ensayos dantescos

    essays · 1982

Poetry (15)
  1. Fervor de Buenos Aires

    poetry · 1923

  2. Luna de enfrente

    poetry · 1925

  3. Cuaderno San Martín

    poetry · 1929

  4. El hacedor

    poetry-and-prose · 1960

    Poems, stories, and personal reflections reveal the interwoven existence of imagination and reality in the mind of the South American writer.

  5. El otro, el mismo

    poetry · 1964

  6. Para las seis cuerdas

    poetry · 1965

  7. Elogio de la sombra

    poetry · 1969

  8. El oro de los tigres

    poetry · 1972

  9. La rosa profunda

    poetry · 1975

  10. La moneda de hierro

    poetry · 1976

  11. Historia de la noche

    poetry · 1977

  12. Adrogué, con ilustraciones de Norah Borges

    illustrated-poetry-book · 1977

  13. La cifra

    poetry · 1981

    This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL110941W.

  14. Los conjurados

    poetry · 1985

  15. Poesía juvenil de J. L. Borges

    poetry · 1978

Plays (2)
  1. Los orilleros

    screenplay · 1955

  2. El paraíso de los creyentes

    screenplay · 1955

Posthumous collections (6)
  1. Obras, reseñas y traducciones inéditas de Jorge Luis Borges

    posthumous-collection · 1995

  2. Textos recobrados 1919–1929

    posthumous-collection · 1997

  3. This Craft of Verse

    posthumous-lectures · 2000

    **From Library Journal:** For Borges (1899-1986), the central fact of life was the existence of words and their potential as building blocks of poetry. In this series of six long-forgotten lectures given at Harvard more than 30 years ago,…

  4. Textos recobrados 1931–1955

    posthumous-collection · 2001

  5. Textos recobrados 1956–1986

    posthumous-collection · 2003

  6. Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature

    posthumous-lectures · 2013

    A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature.

Collaborations (7)
  1. Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi

    collaborative-detective-fiction · 1942

    Siempre hay duplas exitosas, y no sólo por que el resultado de la dupla sea un éxito económico, si no por que algunas veces dos personas talentosas se unen para formar un todo que va más allá de sus talentos individuales. Eso ocurre con…

  2. Un modelo para la muerte

    collaborative-detective-fiction · 1946

  3. Dos fantasías memorables

    collaborative-fiction · 1946

  4. La hermana de Eloísa

    collaborative-short-story-collection · 1955

  5. Libro del cielo y del infierno

    collaborative-essays · 1960

  6. Crónicas de Bustos Domecq

    collaborative-literary-satire · 1967

    'Crônicas de Bustos Domecq - Novos contos de Bustos Domecq', da dupla Borges e Casares, têm como alvo a argentina de acadêmicos a políticos, passando por alguns artistas, além de personagens internacionais do mesmo tipo. Abordando assim…

  7. Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq

    collaborative-short-story-collection · 1972

Other (5)
  1. La leche cuajada de La Martona

    advertising-brochure · 1935

  2. Prólogos con un prólogo de prólogos

    prose-collection · 1975

  3. Diálogos

    dialogue-book · 1976

  4. Borges el memorioso

    interview-book · 1977

  5. Atlas

    prose-and-photography · 1984

Frequently asked questions about Jorge Luis Borges

Where and when was Jorge Luis Borges born, and where did he die?

Borges was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 24, 1899, and died in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 14, 1986.

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What did Jorge Luis Borges do besides write?

He worked as a librarian, translator, lecturer, and professor. From 1955 to 1974, he directed Argentina’s National Library.

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What influences shaped Borges’s writing?

His influences included Shakespeare, Thomas De Quincey, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, the Bible, Jewish Kabbalah, classical and early European literature, and philosophy.

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Which major awards did Jorge Luis Borges receive?

He shared the 1961 Formentor Prize with Samuel Beckett and received the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1979.

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Why is Jorge Luis Borges considered important in world literature?

His short stories and philosophical essays made him one of the most inventive and widely regarded authors in world literature, influencing writers such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Susan Sontag, and Umberto Eco.

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