Jorge Luis Borges

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."
The Aleph and Other Stories

The Aleph and Other Stories

Jorge Luis Borges

Collected Fictions

Collected Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges

Ficciones

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges

L'Aleph

Jorge Luis Borges

Selected Non-Fictions

Selected Non-Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges

Il libro di sabbia

Jorge Luis Borges

The Circular Ruins

The Circular Ruins

Jorge Luis Borges

El Sur

El Sur

Jorge Luis Borges

Shakespeare's Memory

Shakespeare's Memory

Jorge Luis Borges

The Library of Babel

The Library of Babel

Jorge Luis Borges

The Book of Imaginary Beings

The Book of Imaginary Beings

Jorge Luis Borges

The Garden of Forking Paths

The Garden of Forking Paths

Jorge Luis Borges

The House of Asterion

The House of Asterion

Jorge Luis Borges

The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

Jorge Luis Borges

Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi

Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi

Jorge Luis Borges

A Universal History of Iniquity

A Universal History of Iniquity

Jorge Luis Borges

El Aleph

Jorge Luis Borges

Sette sere

Sette sere

Jorge Luis Borges

Finzioni

Finzioni

Jorge Luis Borges

Cartea de nisip

Jorge Luis Borges

La biblioteca de Babel

Jorge Luis Borges

Libro de sueños

Jorge Luis Borges

Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

Jorge Luis Borges

Relatarea lui Brodie

Jorge Luis Borges