STORIES,
ESSAYS AND POEMS MAKE UP HIS PROLIFIC WORK. TODAY, 25 YEARS AFTER HIS
DEATH, WE REMEMBER HIM THROUGH HIS LIFE AND HIS TEXTS TO
SPREAD THE WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE OF READING IT.
THE
MILESTONE . THINK ABOUT THE
ARGENTINE LITERATURE IS TO AUTOMATICALLY THINK OF A NAME: JORGE
LUIS BORGES. HIS WORK IS A HINGE IN THE LETTERS OF OUR COUNTRY
FOR BEING, ABOVE ALL, REVOLUTIONARY. BORGES
ESTABLISHES ANOTHER UNIVERSE: LABYRINTHS, MYTHS, UNIVERSAL STORIES,
APOCRYPHAL QUOTES, PERFECT POLICE, ETERNAL GENEALOGIES,
CIRCULAR NARRATIVES, IMAGINARY MATHEMATICS, INQUIRIES
PHILOSOPHICAL ... THE LIST IS ENDLESS .
THE BORGEAN UNIVERSE MAKES READING AN ADVENTURE AND THE READER A
EXPLORER.
THE
LIFETIME. BORGES IS BORN THE
AUGUST 24, 1899 AND SPENDS HIS FIRST YEARS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF
PALERMO. FROM A FAMILY OF POETS AND SOLDIERS, THE WRITER RECOGNIZES HIMSELF
HEIR TO TWO TRADITIONS AND TWO LANGUAGES: CREOLE AND
ANGLO-SAXON. FOR THIS REASON, HE GROWS UP AS BILINGUAL AND AT 4 YEARS OLD
CAN READ AND WRITE. HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH LITERATURE IS BORN VERY
EARLY AND AT 7 YEARS OLD HE WROTE HIS FIRST STORY "THE FATAL VISOR"
ALLUDING TO THE DON QUIXOTE
CERVANTES. CHILD PRODIGY, SELF-TAUGHT AND SCHOLAR TO THE
TIREDNESS, BORGES BECOMES A MACHINE FOR READING, TRANSLATION AND
WRITING. IN 1919 HE MOVED TO SPAIN WITH HIS FAMILY AND IN
1924 DEFINITIVELY RETURNS TO BUENOS AIRES TO BEGIN
PROFESSIONALLY HIS INCESSANT CAREER AS A WRITER. JUST IN THE
DECADE OF THE 50S, BORGES BEGINS TO BE RECOGNIZED INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE
COUNTRY. IN 1955 HE WAS ELECTED DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY AND,
PARADOXICALLY, AT THIS SAME TIME THE
BLINDNESS SUFFERING CONGENITALLY. IN 1986, HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER
LIVER AND DECIDES TO MOVE TO GENEVA, WHERE HE DIES ON JUNE 14,
VICTIM OF A PULMONARY EPISEMA.
WORK. IF & NBSP; VIEWS
ARGENTINA AND YOU LIKE LITERATURE, HERE ARE SOME MUST-SEES
BORGEANS TO READ ON THE TRIP:
ALEPH AND FICTIONS
(STORIES); LUNA DE
OPPOSITE AND FERVOR
FROM BUENOS AIRES
(POETRY); AND THE LANGUAGE
OF ARGENTINES AND
DISCUSSION (TRIALS).
TOURS AND EXCURSIONS IN ARGENTINA WITH TANGOL. CLICK HERE