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Jorge Luis Borges

Also known as Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges, Chorche Louis Borches, Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo, Horhe Luis Borhes, J. L. Borges, H. Bustos Domecq, Khorkhe Luyis Borkhes, Borges

Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)

OverviewAI-generated

Jorge Luis Borges was a male person from Argentina, born on August 24, 1899, and died in 1986. He used the pseudonyms B. Suarez Lynch and H. Bustos Domecq. His notable works include Libro de los seres imaginarios, Biblioteca personal, Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum, A personal anthology, and Arrabal. He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

Borges is associated with tags such as poetry, nostalgic, melancholy, and elegant. Similar artists include Juan Gelman, Idea Vilariño, Pablo Neruda, Nicolás Guillén, and Federico García Lorca. He has a presence on UbuWeb Film & Video. His writings include observations on reading, memory, and artistic pretense.

Synthesized by Vinony from 30 facts across 10 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Firecrawl, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born: 24 Aug 1899
Died: 14 Jun 1986
Works: 763

Top works

Libro de los seres imaginarios
Biblioteca personal
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
A personal anthology
Arrabal

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Argentina
Active from: 1899-08-24
Active to: 1986-06-14

Discography

El tango1965
Borges & Piazzolla: Tangos & Milongas1997

Discogs

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 3,548
Total plays: 34,817

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,894x
PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet
· 2000 · cited 12,078x
2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2016 · cited 11,109x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

“If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author.”
“Wilde was not a great poet nor a consummate prose writer. He was a very astute Irishman who encompassed in epigrams an esthetic credo which others before him scattered in the space of long pages. He was an enfant terrible.”
“That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.”
“Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.”
“The vast ineptitude of his pretense would be a convincing proof that this was no fraud.”
“Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.”

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Described at

UbuWeb Film & Video: Jorge Luis Borges

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Jorge Luis Borges, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Dead Pages [Printed Text]

Jorge Luis Borges válogatott művei

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Encyclopedic overview

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges (/ˈbɔːrhɛs/ BOR-hess; Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) 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 magical 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 was completely blind by the age of 55. Scholars have proposed that his progressive loss of sight influenced his development of innovative literary symbols through imaginative techniques. By the 1960s, his work was translated and published widely in the United States and Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages.

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