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18 unusual facts about Jorge Luis Borges


Alexander Kuo

His writing makes demands on the reader in a way comparable to Franz Kafka or Jorge Luis Borges.

Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya

In another piece, The Library, based on the story "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges, Adyanthaya makes use of the Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in Old San Juan to explore the notion of deposits.

Blindness in literature

Jorge Luis Borges, who suffered from a congenital condition that caused him to become blind by middle age, discussed his condition in many autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works.

Carlos Mastronardi

There he became a member of the Martín Fierro group (also known as the Florida group) and an intimate of Jorge Luis Borges, although they disagreed strongly about questions about aesthetics and poetry.

Catoptric cistula

Jorge Luis Borges's Library of Babel is a universe which really is organized as an infinite matrix of repeating units, as it appears to be from the inside of a catoptric chamber.

Ching Shih

A semi-fictionalized account of Ching Shih's life appeared in Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate" (part of A Universal History of Infamy, first edited in 1954), where she is described as "a lady pirate who operated in Asian waters, all the way from the Yellow Sea to the rivers of the Annam coast", and who, after surrendering to the imperial forces, is pardoned and allowed to live the rest of her life as an opium smuggler.

Fearsome critters

Axehandle hound, reputedly subsisted on axe handles left unattended; mentioned in Jorge Luis Borges' Book of Imaginary Beings.

Fortunio Bonanova

That year, along with a group of Majorcan intellectuals and Jorge Luis Borges (who was briefly living in Majorca with his parents and sister), he signed the Ultraist Manifesto, using the name Fortunio Bonanova.

Gershom Scholem

Various stories and essays of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges were inspired or influenced by Scholem's books.

Hermann Barsdorf

The Nazis used HB's catalogs to identify Jewish authors, as is hinted at in Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Secret Miracle".

Isidoro Acevedo

a poem by Jorge Luis Borges commemorating his grandfather Isidoro de Acevedo Laprida

Israel Shenker

Among the notable figures he interviewed over the years were Jorge Luis Borges, Noam Chomsky, M. C. Escher, John Kenneth Galbraith, Marcel Marceau, Groucho Marx, Vladimir Nabokov, S. J. Perelman, Picasso, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Juan Luis Panero

His rebellious and wandering spirit drove him to travel around different countries in America, which gave him the opportunity to meet renowned writers such as Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges and Juan Rulfo among others.

Miklós Szentkuthy

For the experimental side and erudite aspect of his work, he is sometimes compared to the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.

Nizam al-Mulk

This account is particularly interesting in light of a possibly apocryphal story recounted by Jorge Luis Borges.

Oedipus Aegyptiacus

In 1999 the University of Geneva exhibited one of the vast tomes of Oedipus Aegyptiacus in an exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Jorge Luis Borges as representative of books associated with the Argentinian author.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

His short parables, written with an abundance of poetic detail and wonderful fertility of invention – though occasionally bordering on the whimsical – are sometimes compared to the ficciones of Jorge Luis Borges.

What Is History?

Repeating his attack on the empirical approach to history, Carr claimed that those historians who claimed to be strict empiricists like Captain Stephen Roskill who took a just-the-facts approach would resemble a character named Funes in a short story by Jorge Luis Borges who never forgot anything he had seen or heard, so his memory was a "garbage heap".


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.

Al-Mu'tasim

The name al-Mu'tasim is also used for a fictional character in the story The Approach to al-Mu'tasim by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, which appears in his anthology Ficciones.

ALPHA 60

Leonidas Aretakis has himself cited a few lyrical references, amongst others some figures in the Romantic and Neo-romantic movements, such as Friedrich Hölderlin, William Blake, Lord Byron, Rainer Maria Rilke and Georg Trakl, and the sometimes dreamlike storytelling of H.P. Lovecraft and Jorge Luis Borges.

Bardiya

"The imposter magician Smerdis" is mentioned in the short story by Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.

Can Xue

She has also written novels, novellas, and literary criticisms of the work of Dante, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka.

Emilio Salgari

His work was very popular in Portugal, Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, where Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda, all attested to reading him when young.

Fauna of Mirrors

The first appearance of the “Fauna of mirrors” is mentioned within The Book of Imaginary Beings written in 1957 by Jorge Luis Borges.

Francisco Rodón

Known for his portraits of important local, regional and world figures, such as Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, Puerto Rican patriarch Luis Muñoz Marín, Cuban dancer Alicia Alonso and Perú's Mario Vargas Llosa, Marta Traba he is also known for his landscapes and still lifes.

Ghost publishing

The central mainstream literary idol of the movement not surprisingly is Jorge Luis Borges whose Ficciones serve as a model for many of these anonymous writers.

Grisélidis Réal

On March 9, 2009 she was exhumed and reburied in the Cemetery of the Kings, the prestigious Geneva cemetery where Ernest Ansermet, John Calvin, Jorge Luis Borges, Alberto Ginastera, Frank Martin, Jean Piaget and Alice Rivaz are buried.

Jack Dann

His work, which includes fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism and historical and alternative history genres, has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, J.G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick.

Jesse Ball

His works are distinguished by the use of a spare style and have been compared to those of Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, and Jorge Luis Borges.

Joaquín Soler Serrano

He subsequently hosted many other programs, finally becoming presenter of the interview program A fondo (1976–1981), in which he had the opportunity to interview Salvador Dalí, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Camilo José Cela, Bernardo Bertolucci, Frederick Forsyth, Elia Kazan, Antonio Gala, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Francisco Umbral, Julio Iglesias and Silvio Fanti among others.

Jorge Aravena Llanca

As a photographer, he has exhibited photographs of Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Nicanor Parra, amid others, in the National Library of Chile.

Juan Oropeza

He took up Paris as his permanent residence during the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, where he befriended such personalities as poet Paul Éluard, writers Jorge Luis Borges, Nicolás Guillén, Miguel Ángel Asturias and painters Salvador Dalí, Marie Laurencin and Pablo Picasso.

L'Hôtel

Other former residents include Marlon Brando, actress and singer Mistinguett, and writer Jorge Luis Borges, who said it seemed to have been "sculpted by a cabinet maker".

Luce López-Baralt

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

Néstor Braunstein

Braunstein recognizes the following authors as the main influences on his thought: Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Louis Althusser, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, Slavoj Žižek and Giorgio Agamben.

Pérez Celis

He also created several literary illustrations, notably those for Jorge Luis Borges' Spanish-language translation of Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass.

Tassos Denegris

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

The Beginning Place

The novel's epigraph "What river is this through which the Ganges flows?" is quoted from Jorge Luis Borges who is known for his works of magical realism.

The Conversation with the Man Called Al-Mu'tasim

The Conversation with the Man Called Al-Mu'tasim: A Game of Shifting Mirrors is a non-existent novel supposedly by an Indian writer named Mir Bahadur Ali, referenced in the story The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim by Jorge Luis Borges (title in Spanish: El acercamiento a Almotásim).