where his grandson Jorge Luis Borges was born. According to a study by Antonio Andrade, Jorge Luis Borges had Portuguese ancestry: Borges's great-grandfather...
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works by Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet, and translator Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in literature"...
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anarchism. He was Jorge Luis Borges's father. In 1898, he married Leonor Acevedo Suárez with whom he had two children: writer Jorge Luis Borges and painter...
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Book of Imaginary Beings (category Works by Jorge Luis Borges)
Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges". The Guardian. DeMott, Benjamin (14 December 1969). "The Book of Imaginary Beings; By Jorge Luis Borges with Margarita...
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Ficciones (category Short story collections by Jorge Luis Borges)
(1990). Jorge Luis Borges: A Study of the Short Fiction. G.K. Hall & Co. pp. 23–25. ISBN 0-8057-8327-X. Lindstrom, Naomi (1990). Jorge Luis Borges: A Study...
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claimed that he "could recite the whole book, forwards and backwards." Jorge Luis Borges considered Pedro Páramo to be one of the greatest texts written in...
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Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge (redirect from List of animals (Borges))
benévolos) is a fictitious taxonomy of animals described by the writer Jorge Luis Borges in his 1942 essay "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" (El idioma...
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Borges and Me: an Encounter is a road trip novel based on a true story, a young Jay Parini's travels with renowned Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges...
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and sister of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. She was the daughter of a lawyer, Dr. Jorge Guillermo Borges and Leonor Acevedo Suárez. Leonor was...
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The Aleph (short story) (category Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges)
(Spanish: El Aleph) is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. First published in September 1945, it was reprinted in the short...
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The Library of Babel (category Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges)
biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library...
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The Library of Babel (website) (category Adaptations of works by Jorge Luis Borges)
website created by Brooklyn author and coder Jonathan Basile, based on Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Library of Babel" (1941). The site was launched...
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The Lottery in Babylon (category Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges)
"The Babylon Lottery") is a fantasy short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It first appeared in 1941 in the literary magazine Sur, and was then...
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The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (category Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges)
short story written in 1935 by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. In his autobiographical essay, Borges wrote about "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim", "it...
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The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel is a popular mathematics book on Jorge Luis Borges and mathematics. It describes several mathematical...
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Jorge Luis Borges and mathematics concerns several modern mathematical concepts found in certain essays and short stories of Argentinian author Jorge...
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The Aleph and Other Stories (category Short story collections by Jorge Luis Borges)
(Spanish: El Aleph, 1949) is a book of short stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The title work, "The Aleph", describes a point in space that contains...
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Macedonio Fernández (section Macedonio and Borges)
He was a mentor to Jorge Luis Borges and other avant-garde Argentine writers. Seventeen years of his correspondence with Borges was published in 2000...
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Labyrinths (short story collection) (redirect from Labyrinths (Borges))
essays by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize...
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Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (category Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges)
Menard, autor del Quijote") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It originally appeared in Spanish in the Argentine journal Sur in...
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Borel in 1913, but the first instance may have been even earlier. Jorge Luis Borges traced the history of this idea from Aristotle's On Generation and...
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Moments (poem) (category Jorge Luis Borges)
Instantes) is the title of a text wrongly attributed to Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was widely spread through articles, compilations, posters and...
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The Book of Sand (short story collection) (category Short story collections by Jorge Luis Borges)
libro de arena) is a 1975 short story collection by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. In the author's opinion, the collection, written relatively late...
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The Secret Miracle (category Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges)
"El milagro secreto") is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. The story focuses on an author condemned to death. At the moment...
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The House of Asterion (category Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges)
writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in 1947 in the literary magazine Los Anales de Buenos Aires and republished in Borges's short story...
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"Borges and I" (originally in Spanish "Borges y Yo") is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is one of the stories in...
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and Poetry" and the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer". Jorge Luis Borges named his first time reading Keats an experience he felt all his life...
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Leonor Acevedo Suárez (category Jorge Luis Borges)
1876–Buenos Aires, July 8, 1975) was the mother of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, and a major figure in his life and work. Leonor Rita Acevedo Suárez...
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Three Versions of Judas (category Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges)
Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It was included in Borges' anthology Ficciones, published in 1944. Like several other Borges stories, it is written...
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was a friend and frequent collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. He is the author of the Fantastique novel The Invention of Morel...
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