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Jorge Luis Borges

This contact was an illusion.

About Me


This is a tribute, information, and related artists page.
Biographical Data
Born August 24, 1899 in Buenos Aires / Author, poet, translator, literary critic / Of Spanish and British heritage primarily / Bilingual in English and Spanish from early youth / First to translate FRANZ KAFKA into Spanish / Suffered glaucoma, completely blind by his 50's / Appointed head of Argentina's National Library in 1955 / Died June 14, 1986 --
A date upon which the author of this page grew increasingly uncertain of his own reality.
Influences include Cervantes, Kafka, H.G. Wells
Borges influenced countless authors, poets, critics, and philosophers.
US-Americans frequently compare his work favorably to that of Philip K. Dick.
Some popular titles available in English:
Borges: Collected Fictions
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Borges: Selected Non-Fictions
The Aleph and Other Stories
A Brief History of Infamy
Some short quotes
"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
"The original is unfaithful to the translation."
"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."
"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

My Interests

Time
Space
Knife duels
Death
Infinite strum of a guitar
Nature of reality
Endless libraries
God
The inherent ties between history, culture, ethnicity, and religion.

I'd like to meet:



To be influenced by, does not imply an attempt to imitate...
That said, I'd like to hear from artists, poets, authors, musicians, and others who have felt Borges' influence in their work.
And, of course, readers. There's never enough!

Music:

The Aleph (playing)

Movies:

Directors/Film with a Borges'esque flavor:
David Lynch
Orson Welles
Jim Jarmusch

Television:

Not so much....

Books:

Cervantes
Kafka
Wm. Blake
H.G. Wells
Shakespeare
Philip K. Dick
1001 Arabian Nights
Borges Titles Available:
Borges: Collected Fictions
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Borges: Selected Non-Fictions
The Aleph and Other Stories

Heroes:

A man of sacrifice:
Jesus died knowing he had a place beside His Father;
Blessed, his suffering was finite.
Judas played an equally pivotal role in the story of Man's salvation. Yet he died knowing his torment was eternal.
Yin, yang, and all that.
Judas is my hero.

Based upon an interpretation of one story, many stories, by Borges.

My Blog

Complete Borges Stories Online

I will add more links as I find them; feel free to contact me with links to Borges' works online. From The Modern World: (http://www.themodernword.com/borges/borges_links.html) "Circular Ruins"http://...
Posted by Jorge Luis Borges on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:34:00 PST

Borges' "The South"

Ernest Hemingway wrote the greatest, US-American short story, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." But the blind Argentinean librarian Jorge Luis Borges wrote the finest short story of the Americas, "The So...
Posted by Jorge Luis Borges on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:11:00 PST