Jump to content

Welcome to Emo Forums
Register now to gain access to all of our features. Once registered and logged in, you will be able to create topics, post replies to existing threads, give reputation to your fellow members, get your own private messenger, post status updates, manage your profile and so much more. If you already have an account, login here - otherwise create an account for free today!
Photo

Jorge Luis Borges


  • Please log in to reply
1 reply to this topic

#1
Sphygmos

Sphygmos

    Il Don Vito

  • Full Members
  • PipPipPipPipPip
  • 5,454 posts
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer, he wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and has several books of compilations of these. Some of his most well-known books are The Aleph, Universal History of Infamy (Historia universal de la infamia), The Book of Imaginary Beings (El libro de los seres imaginarios) and Ficciones.
He invented the genre of magic realism in literature.
Here are a couple of his short stories (which I've put in spoilers to not make the post so long).

Book of Sand (Libro de arena)
Spoiler


The Immortal from the book The Aleph
Spoiler

  • 0

#2
lukejeffrey12

lukejeffrey12

    Spiraling Tempest

  • Full Members
  • PipPipPipPip
  • 293 posts
Ever since I fell in love with an Argentine girl, I fell head over heels for all things Argentine. Including Borges! I first came across his work in an English bookshop in San Telmo (BsAs) There were too many books by him to choose from and so I spent the whole day on the internet reading about him and his work. Happilly he seemed mostly liberal and forward-thinking, saying something like 'I don't believe in a society where the State is more important than the Individual' and who wouldn't enjoy his rants against the far-right nationalists and the Nazi Party? His poetry is wonderful, and reminds me of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's prose (perhaps obviously, maybe, as Marquez was a contemporary of Borges in the genre of Magic Realism) or Federico Lorca's poetry. Though I have to say 'Ficciones' is my favourite short story collection. I especially enjoyed the way it subverts and references it's own literary devices and, I suppose, could be regarded as a form of metafiction - in that he explains much of the conceits throughout the texts. In his own words 'To me, Buenos Aires is like the sea and the wind [eternal]' and I echo those sentiments - in fact reading about Borges now has me all mawkish and misty-eyed thinking of my second home. . . I will return to Buenos Aires one day (I've visited twice before for a month at a time each) and I will buy a book from that bookshop in San Telmo where I first laid eyes on the work of Jorge Luis Borges.
  • 0




0 user(s) are reading this topic

0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users