Jorge Luis Borges






Jorge Luis Borges

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born
October 24, 1899

died
June 14, 1986

gender
male

place of birth
Buenos Aires, Argentina

genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Poetry

influences
Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Schopenhauer, G. K. Chesterton, Leopoldo Lugones, and R. L. Stevenson.


about this author

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (Spanish pronunciation: [xoɾxe lwis boɾxes]) (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in Surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. Borges was fluent in several languages. He was a target of political persecution during the Peron regime.

Due to a hereditary condition, Borges became blind in his late fifties. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library (Biblioteca Nacional) and professor of Literature at the Univ...more




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Labyrinths: Selected Stories a... Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
by Jorge Luis Borges
avg rating 4.51 — 2,936 ratings — published 1964
11 editions
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Collected Fictions Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
avg rating 4.65 — 2,627 ratings — published 1998
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Ficciones Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges
avg rating 4.52 — 2,038 ratings — published 1944
33 editions
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The Aleph and Other Stories The Aleph and Other Stories
by Jorge Luis Borges
avg rating 4.49 — 1,066 ratings — published 1949
35 editions
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The Book of Imaginary Beings The Book of Imaginary Beings
by Jorge Luis Borges
avg rating 4.17 — 725 ratings — published 1948
21 editions
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Selected Poems Selected Poems
by Jorge Luis Borges
avg rating 4.27 — 505 ratings — published 1999
4 editions
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Selected Non-Fictions Selected Non-Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
avg rating 4.39 — 478 ratings — published 1999
2 editions
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The Library of Babel The Library of Babel
by Jorge Luis Borges
avg rating 4.46 — 457 ratings — published 2000
5 editions
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Dreamtigers Dreamtigers (Texas Pan American Series)
by Jorge Luis Borges
avg rating 4.34 — 363 ratings — published 1960
11 editions
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The Book of Sand The Book of Sand
by Jorge Luis Borges
avg rating 4.37 — 316 ratings — published 1975
20 editions
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read."
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"You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened."
Jorge Luis Borges
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