Jorge Luis Borges Critic
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: Argentina
- Born: Aug 24, 1899
- Died: Jun 14, 1986
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges KBE, was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature". His best-known books, Ficciones and The Aleph, published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and also to the fantasy genre. Critic Ángel Flores, the first to use the term magical realism to define a genre that reacted against the dominant realism and naturalism of the 19th century, considers the beginning of the movement to be the release of Borges's A Universal History of Infamy. However, some critics would consider Borges to be a predecessor and not actually a magical realist. His late poems dialogue with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil.
In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland, where he studied at the Collège de Genève. The family travelled widely in Europe, including stays in Spain.
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
death
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
religion
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
God & religion
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
life
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
poetry
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
imagination
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
government