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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
806 words, approx. 2.7 pages
 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 August... summary from source:
 Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
8990 words, approx. 30 pages
 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, was... summary from source:
Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
7145 words, approx. 23.8 pages
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 elec...
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 The Garden of Forking Paths Information
902 words, approx. 3 pages
"The Garden of Forking Paths" (original Spanish title: "El Jardín de senderos que se bifurcan") is a 1941 short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It was his first work to be translated into English, appearing in Ellery Queen's...
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 The Washington Post In a Garden of Forking Paths
05/06/2001: 792 words, approx. 3 pages MR MEE By Andrew Crumey Picador USA. 344 pp. $25 Andrew Crumey begins Mr Mee by invoking Jorge Luis Borges as a sort of muse, though not by name. The eponymous character, an octogenarian amateur historian of independent means, comes across... summary from source:
The Village Voice Forking Paths
07/12/2006: 923 words, approx. 3 pages Forking Paths Labyrinths: Borges haunts the pages of new books from three Latin American maestros The Tango Singer By Tomás Eloy MartÃnez Translatedby Anne McLean Bloomsbury, 256 pp. $23.95 Last Evenings on Earth By Roberta Bolaño Translated by Chris Andrews New...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Robert L. Chibka
8,910 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay on the proliferation of versions of a manuscript in Borges's story “The Garden of Forking Paths,” Chibka examines the significance of the proliferation of alternative, apparently trivial, details in several editions of the Spanish and English texts of that story.
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 96%Magical Realism in Two Novels
2,350 words, approx. 8 pages
The failure of hope and change in the novels, "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" and "The Garden of Forking Paths", written by Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 92%Labyrinths in "Garden of Forking Paths"
1,770 words, approx. 6 pages
In the short story "Garden of Forking Paths" by Jose Luis Borges, the protagonist is a Chinese English profession who spies for the Germany army. The clever labyrinths in the story are a key theme; they magically twist and fold throughout the story to allow readers to view, challenge and question the norms of time.
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