Alrededor de 1935, con diferrentes seudónimos y también con sus propios nombres, Jorge Luis Borges y Adolfo Bioy Casares iniciaron un fecundo y original trabajo de colaboración, que duró varios año.s Publicaron en común cuentos, prosas breves, críticas de libros, antologías, traducciones y guiones cinematográficos. Dirigieron, además, la célebre colección de novelas policiales El Séptimo Cielo. Museo reúne los textos escritos por Borges y Bioy que han quedado sin recoger: el Doctor Praetorius, el folleto de La Leche Cuajada de La Martona, los fragmentos literarios de las revistas Destiempo y Los Anales de Buenos Aires, seleccionados por el autor apócrifo B. Lynch Davis, algunos textos dispersos y traducciones publicadas en la revista Sur. El volumen abre con un artículo de Bioy Casares sobre su amistad con Borges y cierra con un texto de Borges sobre Bioy. Este libro singular revela las diversas estrategias de producciónes de estos dos grandes escritores argentinos, que una vez más fascinan al lector con su genio y creatividad incomparables.
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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."
