Obras Completas 1923-1972

by Jorge Luis Borges

Como de Quincey y tantos otros, he sabido, antes de haber escrito una sola linea, que mi destino seria literario. Mi primer libro data de 1923; mis Obras Completas, ahora, reunen la labor de medio siglo. No se que merito tendran, pero me place comprobar la variedad de temas que abarcan. La patria, los azares de los mayores, las literaturas que honran las lenguas de los hombres, las filosofias que he tratado de penetrar, los atardeceres, los ocios, las desgarradas orillas de mi ciudad, mi extraña vida cuya posible justificacion esta en estas páginas, los sueños olvidados y recuperados, el tiempo... La prosa convive con el verso; acaso para la imaginacion ambas son iguales.
Felizmente, no nos debemos a una sola tradicion; podemos aspirar a todas. Mis limitaciones personales y mi curiosidad dejan aqui su testimonio. J.L.B.

Genres: Fiction, Poetry

Unknown Binding

First published July 1, 1974

About the author

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
Born in Buenos Aires, Borges later moved with his family to Switzerland in 1914, where he studied at the Collège de Genève. The family travelled widely in Europe, including 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. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He became completely blind by the age of 55. Scholars have suggested that his progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. By the 1960s, his work was translated and published widely in the United States and Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages.
In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first Formentor Prize, which he shared with Samuel Beckett. In 1971, he won the Jerusalem Prize. His international reputation was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by the growing number of English translations, the Latin American Boom, and by the success of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. He dedicated his final work, The Conspirators, to the city of Geneva, Switzerland. Writer and essayist J.M. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists."

Reviews

[Mellon Collie · Rating 5 out of 5]

No puedo darle menos del puntaje máximo a quien tal vez le debo mi amor por la literatura. Borges es un amigo que me introdujo a tantos otros autores. Leyéndolo siento que leo la historia toda y me siento extrañamente en paz. Su metafísica sin duda es un consuelo.

[Mariana · Rating 5 out of 5]

No me canso de releer las obras completas de Borges...y cada vez descubro un nuevo detalle...incomparable!!

[Joaquin Del pozo · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is important to read this man it is a XX century classic

[Mills College Library]

868 B732o 1974