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Biblioteca Pessoal
1988
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Quando morreu, Borges já tinha escrito os prólogos dos primeiros sessenta e quatro títulos de uma série de cem que haveria de constituir uma coleção, a súmula das suas preferências literárias: a sua biblioteca pessoal, sobre a qual Borges escreveu: «Desejo que esta biblioteca seja tão variada quanto a curiosidade que a mesma induziu em mim.» É esta escolha pessoalíssima de Borges que aqui se apresenta. «Conheceu a tutela dos jesuítas, a prática do teatro, a erudição variada, o estudo superficial da lei, o deísmo, o amor de muitas mulheres, a perigosa redação de libelos, a prisão, o desterro, a composição de tragédias, o vaivém dos mecenatos, a incansável esgrima da polémica, a fortuna, a fama esmagadora e, por fim, a glória. Chamaram-lhe "rei" Voltaire. Foi um dos primeiros franceses a ir a Inglaterra. Escreveu um panegírico desta ilha, que é também uma sátira de França.»

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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Author · 116 books

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."

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