false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854873m/17954.jpg 17954 1 <div><div>&#8220;Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.&#8221;<br> <br>These words, inseparably marrying Jorge Luis Borges's life and work, encapsulate how he interwove the two throughout his legendary career. But the Borges of popular imagination is the blind, lauded librarian and man of letters; few biographers have explored his tumultuous early life in the streets and cafes of Buenos Aires, a young man searching for his path in the world. In <i>Jorge Luis Borges</i>, Jason Wilson uncovers the young poet who wrote, loved, and lost with adventurous passion, and he considers the later work and life of the writer who claimed he never created a character other than himself. As Borges declared, &#8220;It&#8217;s always me, subtly disguised.&#8221; <br><br>Born in Buenos Aires in 1899, Borges was a voracious reader from childhood, perhaps in part because he knew he lived under an inescapable sentence of adult-onset blindness inherited from his father. Wilson chronicles Borges&#8217;s life as he raced against time and his fated blindness, charting the literary friendships, love affairs, and polemical writings that formed the foundation of his youth. Illuminating the connections running between the biography and fictions of Borges, Wilson traces the outline of this self-effacing literary figure. <br><br>Though in his later writings Borges would subjugate emotion to the wild play of ideas, this bracing book reminds us that his works always recreated his life in subtle and delicate ways. Restoring Borges to his Argentine roots, <i>Jorge Luis Borges </i>will be an invaluable resource for all those who treasure this modern master. <br><br><br></div></div> 19442 2 10 2006 Jorge Luis Borges (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives) total:3|4:1|3:2| 3 10 7 1 17954 1861892861 9781861892867 3 1 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854873m/17954.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17954.Jorge_Luis_Borges 4 0 false Wed Feb 25 21:44:05 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 21:52:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 17954 1861892861 9781861892867 3 1 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854873m/17954.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17954.Jorge_Luis_Borges 3 0 false Thu Aug 28 12:25:16 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 12:25:16 -0700 2008 17954 1861892861 9781861892867 3 1 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854873m/17954.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17954.Jorge_Luis_Borges 0 0 false Fri Apr 18 11:50:35 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 11:50:40 -0700 2008 17954 1861892861 9781861892867 3 1 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854873m/17954.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17954.Jorge_Luis_Borges 0 0 false Thu Apr 17 13:33:42 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 13:33:53 -0700 2008 17954 1861892861 9781861892867 3 1 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854873m/17954.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17954.Jorge_Luis_Borges 0 0 false Thu Mar 06 03:51:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 03:51:04 -0800 2008 17954 1861892861 9781861892867 3 1 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854873m/17954.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17954.Jorge_Luis_Borges 3 0 false Tue Jan 22 23:05:57 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 23:05:57 -0800 2008 17954 1861892861 9781861892867 3 1 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854873m/17954.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17954.Jorge_Luis_Borges 0 0 false Sun Jul 22 09:40:56 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 09:40:56 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=17954