His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, philosophers, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. After reviewing works that were written before those of Kafka, Borges wrote: If I am not mistaken, the heterogeneous pieces I have enumerated resemble Kafka; if I am not mistaken, not all of them resemble each other. Her family had been much involved in the European settling of South America and the Argentine War of Independence, and she spoke often of their heroic actions.[9]. His father gave up practicing law due to the failing eyesight that would eventually afflict his son. His first publication, for a Buenos Aires newspaper, was a translation of Oscar Wilde's story "The Happy Prince" into Spanish when he was nine. Kodama commissioned new translations by Andrew Hurley, which have become the official translations in English. In 1914, the family moved to Geneva, Switzerland, and spent the next decade in Europe. [44] Borges responded, "You are asking me if I want a priest." [15], Encontra-se sepultado no Cemitério de Plainpalais, em Genebra, na Suíça. Everybody knows my opinions, but as for my dreams and my stories, they should be allowed their full freedom, I think. But Perón could be very cruel. This led to his first lecture tour in the United States. The committee considered Borges, Graham Greene and Miguel Ángel Asturias, with the last chosen winner. [118] However, Borges also scorned his own Basque ancestry and criticised the abolition of slavery in America because he believed black people were happier remaining uneducated and without freedom. [92] At the end of his life he produced a Spanish-language version of a part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda. "[68], In a 1944 essay, Borges postulated,.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, Nazism suffers from unreality, like Erigena's hell. He had little formal education, no qualifications and few friends. [4] His late poems converse with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil. Wardrip-Fruin, Noah & Montfort, Nick (2003). During a 1971 conference at Columbia University, a creative writing student asked Borges what he regarded as "a writer's duty to his time". Nel 1923 finalmente pubblica il suo primo libro di poesie, “Fervore di Buenos Aires“: il risultato finale e composito di tutta la sua precedente produzione. I mean, he had people tortured, killed. By the late 1950s he had become completely blind. Nasce a Buenos Aires, il 24 agosto del 1899. [119] In his essay "El escritor argentino y la tradición", Borges notes that the very absence of camels in the Qur'an was proof enough that it was an Arabian work (despite the fact that camels are, in fact, mentioned in the Qur'an). Trasferitosi in Svizzera con la famiglia, all’inizio degli ani ’20 del Novecento, si dedicò intensamente allo studio della letteratura europea. [76], After Evita Perón's death on 26 July 1952, Borges received a visit from two policemen, who ordered him to put up two portraits of the ruling couple on the premises of SADE. With many Swiss and Argentine dignitaries present, Pastor de Montmollin read the First Chapter of St John's Gospel. Facebook. And his wife was a common prostitute. A descendant of the Argentine lawyer and politician Francisco Narciso de Laprida, de Acevedo Laprida fought in the battles of Cepeda in 1859, Pavón in 1861, and Los Corrales in 1880. [66] In the essay, Borges declares he would be proud to be a Jew, and remarks that any pure Castilian is likely to come from ancient Jewish descent, from a millennium ago. [118], Borges's interest in Argentine themes reflects, in part, the inspiration of his family tree. Jorge Luis learned French, read Thomas Carlyle in English, and began to read philosophy in German.

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