'Al cabo de los anos, he comprendido que me esta vedado ensayar la cadencia magica, la curiosa metafora, la interjeccion, la obra sabiamente gobernada o de largo aliento. Mi suerte es lo que suele denominarse poesia intelectual', dice Jorge Luis Borges en este libro que reune sus composiciones escritas entre 1978 y 1981. El laberinto y los espejos, las bibliotecas y las enciclopedias, el Islam, Heraclito, Dante y Virgilio junto con Buenos Aires, los compadritos del 900 y el amor, confluyen en imagenes y fabulaciones que suman 'la cifra de los pasos que te fue dado andar sobre la tierra'. Este libro fue publicado simultáneamente en Madrid, por Alianza Editores, y en Buenos Aires, por Emecé Editores. El poema fue suprimido en la edición argentina y en todas las demás a partir de la segunda edición. Se reproduce también en Borges. Esplendor y derrota, de María Esther Vázquez.
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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."
