X-Nico

unusual facts about Borges



Adrogue, con ilustraciones de Norah Borges

Adrogué, con ilustraciones de Norah Borges (1977) is a volume of poetry by Jorge Luis Borges, illustrated by his sister Norah Borges, about the city of Adrogué.

Álvaro Melián Lafinur

In 1910, while working at the Spanish newspaper El País, he published Borges' work, a translation of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince, for the first time.

Angelis Borges

Angelis Borges (born Angelis Cunha Borges on 11 May 1988 in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais), is known for winning the Brazilian version of reality TV Fazenda de Verão broadcast by Rede Record.

Boxing Monthly

Other contributors include veteran journalist Graham Houston, ex Ring Magazine editor Steve Farhood, Ron Borges and Steve Bunce.

Buscapé

It was co-founded in São Paulo, Brazil in 1999 by Romero Rodrigues, Rodrigo Borges, Ronaldo Morita and Mario Letelier.

Carpocrates

(Borges depicts a fictional sect with this belief in his short story "The Theologians".)

Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge

Louis Sass has suggested, in response to Borges' list, that such "Chinese" thinking shows signs of typical schizophrenic thought processes.

Dener

On April 18, 1994 in Rio de Janeiro, he died in a car accident, when his Mitsubishi Eclipse, crashed into a tree at Borges de Medeiros Avenue, in the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas district.

Domecq

H. Bustos Domecq, a pseudonym used for several collaborative works by the Argentine writers Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Eduardo Berti

His translations from English into Spanish include “With Borges” (by Alberto Manguel), “The Sandglass” (Romesh Gunesekera), “American Notebooks, a selection” (Nathaniel Hawthorne), “Lady Susan” (Jane Austen), and also a couple of anthologies as “New York short stories” (Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, Dorothy Parker, etc.).

El Hacedor

Dreamtigers, or El Hacedor, book by the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges

Fernando Maldonado

Scepticism about the latest manifestations of modern art has been a constant in his work, derived from existentialism of his thinking and his interest in authors like Camus, Borges, Cioran, and shamanism of Carlos Castaneda and of course the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez.

Gu Hyo-seo

Reminiscent of Borges and Eco, Secret Door is a novel about history and religion.

Gustavo Borges

Gustavo França Borges (born December 2, 1972 in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil) is a Brazilian former international swimmer.

On December 20, shortly after the end of the Jose Finkel Trophy, Fernando Scherer, Carlos Jayme, Alexandre Massura and Gustavo Borges, in order, fell the pool at Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama with a time of 3:10.45, which would only be broken in 2000 by the Swedish team.

Harto The Borges

HARTO THE BORGES a documentary by" Eduardo Montes-Bradley made possible with a grant from INCAA with Horacio González, Martín Caparrós, Christian Ferrer, Ariel Dorfman, Franco Lucentini, Paolo Collo, Osvaldo Bayer, Luis Sepúlveda, Mempo Giardinelli, Alejandro Howowicz produced by Soledad Liendo associate producer Sara Kaplan edited by Eduardo Montes-Bradley directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley.

Latin American literature

Latin American authors who figured in prominent literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon list of the most enduring works of world literature include: Rubén Dário, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, José Lezama Lima, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

Leroidesanimaux

At three, he raced at Gávea Racetrack in Rio de Janeiro before being brought to the United States by owners T N T Stud (Goncalo Borges Torrealba and Regina Torrealba).

Luce López-Baralt

"Borges o la mística del silencio: Lo que había al otro lado del Zahir" in Jorge Luis Borges.

María Kodama

Kodama's assertive administration of the Borges estate also resulted in a bitter dispute with the French publisher Gallimard regarding the republication of the complete works of Borges in French, with Pierre Assouline in Le Nouvel Observateur (August 2006) calling her "an obstacle to the dissemination of the works of Borges."

Núcleo de Estudos em Ética e Desconstrução

Núcleo de Estudos em Ética e Desconstrução or NEED (Study Group in Ethics and Deconstruction) was founded in 2002 by Paulo Cesar Duque-Estrada, Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs- Graduate Programs and Research- and Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and some of his post-graduate students; Ana Maria Continentino, André Borges, Carla Rodrigues, Ligia Saramago, Rafael Haddock-Lobo and Tatiana Grenha.

Puerta de Hierro, el exilio de Perón

Laplace had previously played Perón at the movie Eva Perón: The True Story, the theater play "Borges y Perón" and the telenovela Padre Coraje.

Rebecca Stott

The New York Times compared it to the works of Borges and Edgar Allan Poe.

Ron Borges

He has severely criticized Bill Belichick; some media figures, including Bill Simmons, have asserted that this is because Borges relied on former quarterback Drew Bledsoe, benched and traded by Belichick, as his primary source of Patriots information.

In 1999, the Boston Globes executive sports editor banned Globe sportswriters from appearing on WEEI's afternoon 'The Big Show' after Borges appeared on it and allegedly used a racial slur to describe New York Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu.

Tassos Denegris

He published six collections of poetry and translated into Greek work by, among others Borges and Octavio Paz.

The Purple Land

According to Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, who is quoted by Borges, the final pages of the novel contain "the supreme justification of America compared with Western civilisation."

Tlon

"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", a short story by the 20th century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges

Uqbar

Nonetheless, there is at least one real place with the name Uqbar, in Algeria, as well as a town called Ukbara in Iraq, each of which seems to have at least some aspects in common with Borges's fictional Uqbar.


see also