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Jorge Luis Borges

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born
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
August 24, 1899

died
June 14, 1986

gender
male

genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Poetry

influences
Dante, Cervantes, Schopenhauer, Kipling, Kafka


About this author

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (Spanish pronunciation: [xoɾxe lwis boɾxes]) 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 and supported the military juntas that overthrew it.

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...more


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Average rating: 4.37 · 75,681 ratings · 3,790 reviews · 493 distinct works · Similar authors
Ficciones
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4.49 of 5 stars 4.49 avg rating — 14,452 ratings — published 1944 — 80 editions
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Labyrinths
4.47 of 5 stars 4.47 avg rating — 12,280 ratings — published 1962 — 27 editions
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Collected Fictions
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4.61 of 5 stars 4.61 avg rating — 9,068 ratings — published 1989 — 11 editions
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The Aleph and Other Stories
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4.48 of 5 stars 4.48 avg rating — 6,901 ratings — published 1949 — 15 editions
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Selected Poems
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 2,599 ratings — 15 editions
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The Book of Imaginary Beings
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 2,810 ratings — published 1967 — 38 editions
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The Book of Sand
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 2,902 ratings — published 1975 — 48 editions
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The Library of Babel
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4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 2,050 ratings — published 1963 — 14 editions
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El Aleph
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 2,405 ratings — published 1949 — 62 editions
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Selected Non-Fictions
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4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 1,264 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
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Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
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“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
tags: life
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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.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
tags: pride, reading, writers
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