«Aquí la tarde cenicienta espera / el fruto que le debe la mañana; / aquí mi sombra en la no menos vana / sombra final se perderá, ligera. / No nos uno el amor sino el espanto; / será por eso que la quiero tanto.» En su Prólogo, Borges presenta El otro, el mismo (1964) como su preferido entre "los muchos libros de versos que mi resignación, mi descuido y a veces mi pasión fueron borroneando". En efecto, allí se encuentran poemas fundamentales como "Otro poema de los dones" y "Poema conjetural". En Para las seis cuerdas (1965), Borges recrea el universo de las milongas porteñas de finales del siglo XIX convertidas en elegías de un mundo extinto. Completa este volumen Elogio de la sombra (1969), donde el lector encontrará las palabras entre la poesía y la prosa que componen "Laberinto", "Las cosas", "Fragmentos de un evangelio apócrifo"y otros textos no menos memorables.
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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."
