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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Jorge Luis Borges ( 1899-08-24 – 1986-06-14 ) was an Argentine writer who is considered one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a...


Biography

Name: Jorge Luis Borges
Birth Date: August 24, 1899
Death Date: June 14, 1986
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Place of Death: Geneva, Switzerland
Nationality: Argentine
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, poet

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Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
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The Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was one of Latin America's most original and influential prose writers and poets. His short stories revealed him as one of the great stylists of the Spanish language. Jorge Luis Borges was born on...
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Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's best-known writer, was born on 24 August 1899 in a traditional old house in central Buenos Aires (not far from today's financial district) and grew up in the neighborhood of Palermo. His father, Jorge Guillermo Borges,...
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Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
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The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary world literature. Continuing the tradition of fantastic literature established by Edgar Allan Poe in the nineteenth century, he transformed the genre into an...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Jorge Luis Borges Information
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Jorge Luis Borges (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine writer, best known in the English-speaking world for his short stories and fictional essays. Borges was also a poet, critic, and translator. He was influenced by authors such as: Dante...


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
Beyond The Labyrinth The First Comprehensive Biography Of Jorge Luis Borges Offers A Nuanced View Of The Elusive Man Of Letters
08/01/2004: 906 words, approx. 3 pages
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) persuaded his readers that he was a writer without a biography. He used to write that nothing more important than reading a line of Shakespeare happened to him. In the end, he wrote, the forms that a writer traces in...
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The Boston Globe
The master of paradox The incomparable mind of Jorge Luis Borges; essays on books, film, ideas, people, and politics
08/15/1999: 1,354 words, approx. 5 pages
JORGE LUIS BORGES Selected Non-Fiction Edited by Eliot Weinberger. Viking. 559 pp. $40. Julio Ortega is a professor of Spanish literature at Brown University. On Aug. 24, the centenary of Jorge Luis Borges, a worldwide celebration of the most paradoxical of modern writers,...
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AP News
Argentine poet wins literature prize
11/29/2007: 254 words, approx. 1 pages
Argentine poet Juan Gelman, who wrote about the pain of loss under his country's military juntas, has won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary award.The $133,000 award was announced Thursday by Spanish Culture Minister Cesar Antonio Molina.Gelman, 77, has published more than 20...
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Desai's 'Inheritance' wins fiction prize
3/9/2007: 557 words, approx. 2 pages
Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," a narrative of global discovery and displacement that has already won the Man Booker Prize, received another literary honor Thursday night: the National Book Critics Circle fiction award."To be claimed by the place in which you live means so...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Martin S. Stabb
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In the following discussion of Borges's fiction, Stabb analyzes the elements that define the pieces as characteristically Borgesian.
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Critical Essay by Eynel Wardi
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In the following essay, Wardi applies psychoanalytic techniques to the interpretation of Borges's story “Emma Zunz.”
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Critical Essay by Julia A. Kushigian
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In the following essay, Kushigian explores the significance of “Orientalism” in Borges's fiction.
 


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