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Veröffentlichung:	April 2014
Genre:	Sprache
ISBN:	9781156511695
EAN-Code:	9781156511695
Verlag:	Books LLC, Reference Series
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 246 mm / B 189 mm / D 2 mm
Gewicht:	70 gr
Seiten:	24
Zus. Info:	Paperback
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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Chapters: Works by Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Luis Borges bibliography, Book of Imaginary Beings, Uqbar, Borges on Martín Fierro, H. Bustos Domecq, Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge's Taxonomy, María Esther Vázquez, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Death and the Compass, The Maker, A New Refutation of Time, Sur, Dreamtigers, Pedro Mata, Norah Borges, El Golem. Excerpt: Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (August 24, 1899 ¿ June 14, 1986), best known as Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish pronunciation: ), was an Argentine writer, essayist, 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. 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, the Prix Formentor. In 1971 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages. He died in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1986. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature." His most famous books, Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949), are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes such as dreams, labyrinths, libraries, animals, fictional writers, religion and God. His works have contributed to the genre of magical realism, a genre that reacted against the realism/naturalism of the nineteenth century. In fact, critic Angel Flores, the first to use the term, set the beginning of this movement with Borges's Historia universal de la infamia (1935). Scholars also have suggested that Borges's progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. His late poems dialogue with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil. His international fame was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by the "Latin American Boom" and the success of Gabriel García Márquez's Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude). Writer and essayist J. M. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language o