Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (usually referred to as just "Jorge Luis Borges", 1899-1986) was an author. Borges is one of the most influential figures within magical realist fiction and is one of the best-known Argentine authors.
Life[]
Born in Buenos Aires in August of 1899, Borges was a member of a middle-class family. Due to their middle-class nature, the family moved to Palermo. Borges' father was an author and laywer while Borges' mother came from an Uruguayan family with ties to the settlement of South America and the Argentine War of Independence.
At age ten, Borges supposedly translated Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince (though many of his friends thought it was his father, who constantly seeked to become a great author). He was taught at home from age eleven and was a gifted student - reading Shakespeare while in his pre-teen years and learning to speak English alongside Spanish. In 1914, his father quit being a lawyer due to failing eyesight and the family moved to Switzerland - where Borges learned French and German. He also met an author named Maurice Abramowicz and became friends with her.
After World War I, Borges' family moved across Spain. While in Spain, Borges became a member of the Ultraist literary movement and met then-famous Spanish authors Rafael Cansinos-Asséns and Ramón Gómez de la Serna.
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Writing style[]
Throughout his life, Borges wrote many short works with postmodernist and magical realist leanings. Seeking to mirror novels such as Sartor Resartus and The Fair Haven but in miniature, Borges wrote several analyses of fictional works and authors.
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Notable works[]
Collected works[]
- Historia universal de la infamia (or A Universal History of Infamy)
- El atroz redentor Lazarus Morell (or The Dread Redeemer Lazarus Morell)
- El impostor inverosímil Tom Castro (or Tom Castro, the Implausible Imposter)
- La viuda Ching, Pirate (The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate)
- El proveedor de iniquidades Monk Eastman (or Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities)
- El asesino desinteresado Bill Harrigan (or The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan)
- El incivil maestro de ceremonias Kotsuké no Suké (or The Insulting Master of Etiquette Kôtsuké no Suké)
- El tintorero enmascarado Hákim de Merv (or The Masked Dyer, Hakim of Merv)
- Hombre de la esquina rosada (or Streetcorner Man and Man on Pink Corner)
- Etcétera (or Et cetera)
- Un teólogo en la muerte (or A Theologian in Death)
- La cámara de las estatuas (or The Chamber of Statues)
- Historia de los dos que soñaron (or Tale of the Two Dreamers)
- El brujo postergado (or The Wizard Postponed)
- El espejo de tinta (or The Mirror of Ink)
- Un doble de Mahoma (or A Double for Mohammed, not in all editions)
- El enemigo generoso (or The Generous Enemy, not in all editions)
- Del rigor en la ciencia (or On Exactitude in Science, not in all editions)
- Historia de la eternidad (or A History of Eternity) - a collection of essays and other miscellaneous writings
- El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (or Garden of Forking Paths)
- Ficciones
- Funes the Memorious
- The Form of the Sword
- Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
- Death and the Compass
- The Secret Miracle
- Three Versions of Judas
- The End (not in all editions)
- The Sect of the Phoenix (not in all editions)
- The South (not in all editions)
- El Aleph (or The Aleph and Other Stories)
- El inmortal (or The Immortal)
- El Muerto (or The Dead Man)
- Los teólogos (or The Theologian)
- Historia del guerrero y la cautiva (or Story of the Warrior and the Captive)
- Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829–1874) (or A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829–1874))
- Emma Zunz
- La casa de Asterión (or The House of Asterion)
- La otra muerte (or The Other Death)
- Deutsches réquiem (or Deutsches Requiem)
- La busca de Averroes (or Averroes's Search)
- El zahir (or The Zahir)
- La escritura del dios (or The Writing of the God)
- Abenjacán el Bojarí, muerto en su laberinto (or Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth, not in all editions)
- Historia de los dos reyes y los dos laberintos (or Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos and The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths, not in all editions)
- La espera (or The Wait, not in all editions)
- El hombre en el umbral (or The Man on the Threshold, not in all editions)
- El Aleph (or The Aleph)
- Manual de zoología fantástica (or Book of Imaginary Beings, co-written with Margarita Guerrero) - a work on mythical creatures
- El Hacedor (or Dreamtigers and The Maker) - a collection of stories and poetry
- El hacedor (or The Maker)
- Dreamtigers
- Diálogo sobre un diálogo (or A Dialog About a Dialog)
- Las uñas (or Toenails)
- Los espejos velados (or Covered Mirrors)
- Argumentum ornitologicum
- El cautivo (or The Captive)
- El simulacro (or The Mountebank)
- Delia Elena San Marco
- Diálogo de muertos (or A Dialog Between Dead Men)
- La trama (or The Plot)
- Un problema (or A Problem)
- Una rosa amarilla (or The Yellow Rose)
- El testigo (or The Witness)
- Martín Fierro
- Mutations
- Parábola de Cervantes y del Quijote (or Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote)
- Paradiso XXXI, 108
- Parábola del palacio (or Parable of the Palace)
- Everything and Nothing
- Ragnarök
- Inferno, I, 32
- Borges y yo (or Borges and I)
- El libro de arena (or The Book of Sand)
- El Otro (or The Other)
- Ulrica (or Ulrikke)
- El Congreso (or The Congress)
- There Are More Things
- La Secta de los Treinta (or The Sect of the Thirty)
- La noche de los dones (or The Night of the Gifts)
- El espejo y la máscara (or The Mirror and the Mask)
- Undr
- Utopía de un hombre que está cansado (or A Weary Man's Utopia)
- El soborno (or The Bride)
- Avelino Arredondo
- El disco (or The Disk)
- El libro de arena (or The Book of Sand)
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See also[]
- Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Roberto Bolaño
- Margarita Guerrero
- Julio Cortázar
- John Barth
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Gabriel García Márquez
Sources[]
- Wikipedia