Jorge Luis Borges Weary History

It is not the reading that matters,” declares a character in Jorge Luis Borges’s “A Weary Man’s Utopia” (from his volume The Book of Sand), “but the rereading”. I’ve applied this advice to its ...

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Spanish and Portuguese form of George. A famous bearer was the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986).

A popular variation of the name George, Jorge has many notable namesakes such as Pope Francis (whose birth name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio), actor Jorge Alfredo Vega, author Jorge Luis Borges, actor Jorge Garcia, and mixed martial artist Jorge Masvidal.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The rights to the works of the late Jorge Luis Borges, considered Argentina’s most internationally significant author of the 20th century, have fallen into limbo because his ...

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The Forward: So, what did Jorge Luis Borges really think of the Jews?

When María Kodama, the widow of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, died March 26, we were moved to reevaluate the writer’s complex, sometimes contradictory attitude towards Jews. It has become ...

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In 1960, prior to his astonishing swift ascendance to literary fame, Jorge Luis Borges must have seemed an unlikely candidate for the unofficial title of world’s most influential fiction writer.

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When Jorge Luis Borges died in 1986, he was one of the world's most famous writers. Outside Spanish-speaking countries, many would have been pushed to say why; but mere mention of his name - and he ...

In early 1925, in a literary magazine in Buenos Aires called Proa ("Prow"), which he had helped to found, Jorge Luis Borges wrote an essay called "El Ulises de Joyce." He would then have been just ...

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