Un'antologia di poesie selezionate dallo stesso poeta ci introduce nel poliedrico universo borgesiano. Egli conosce come nessuno il piacere pericoloso della lettura. Gioca e falsifica. Fingendo di essere un istrione, si applica sempre nuove maschere sul volto. Fugge se stesso in altri se stessi, che lo inquietano ancor di più: si insegue e si nasconde attraverso simboli, ombre, tropi, metafore, enciclopedie, libri veri e immaginari, labirinti veri e sognati. Alla fine di questa lunghissima fuga nessuno può affermare se Borges abbia davvero trovato la propria identità o l'abbia eternamente smarrita. Il commento di Roberto Paoli rintraccia tutte le allusioni culturali del più dotto fra i poeti del XX secolo. Con bibliografia e cronologia della vita e delle opere.
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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."
