Siruela / La Biblioteca de Babel #2 En mi curioso ayer prevalecía la superstición de que entre cada tarde y cada mañana ocurren hechos que es una vergüenza ignorar. El planeta estaba poblado de espectros colectivos, el Canada, el Brasil, el Congo Suizo y el Mercado Común. Casi nadie sabía la historia previa de esos entes platónicos, pero sí los más íntimos pormenores del último congreso de pedagogos, la inminente ruptura de relaciones y los mensajes que los presidentes mandaban, elaborados por el secretario del secretario con la prudente imprecisión que era propia del género. Todo esto se leía para el olvido, porque a las pocas horas lo borrarían otras trivialidades. J.L.B. Contenido CUENTOS
- Veinticinco Agosto 1983
- La Rosa de Paracelso
- Tigres azules
- Utopia de un Hombre que está cansado ENTREVISTA
- Borges igual a si mismo (María Esther Vázquez, Abril 1973) — Los primeros años—Adolecencia en Europa—La literatura alemana—Examen de la obra—Los temas borgianos—Políticas, honores y aficiones—Las lenguas nórdicas—La vida. Defectos y virtudes. — La música. La pintura. La muerte. Cronología Bibliografía Biografía
Author
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, usually referred to as Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish pronunciation: [xoɾxe lwis boɾxes]), was an Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to 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. Borges was fluent in several languages. He was a target of political persecution during the Peron regime, and supported the military juntas that overthrew it. Due to a hereditary condition, Borges became blind in his late fifties. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library (Biblioteca Nacional) and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first International Publishers' Prize Prix Formentor. His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. He died in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1986. J. M. Coetzee said of Borges: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish American novelists."
