In his Autobiographical Essay, written in 1970, Borges.

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As Borges says in the autobiographical essay, “A tradition of literature ran through my father’s family. His great-uncle Juan Crisostomo Lafinur was one of the first Argentine poets.. .. One of my father’s cousins Alvaro Melian Lafinur. . .was a leading minor poet and later found his way into the Argentine Academy of Letters.” And of course Borges’ father had written a novel, as.

A reader, say, like that arch reader Jorge Luis Borges, “one of the most well read men in history,” writes Grant Munroe at The Rumpus. Part of the thrill of discovering Borges resides in discovering all of the books he loved, both real and imaginary. The author always points to his sources.

By this time, however, the best known of Borges’s writing was probably the short essay “Borges and I,” in which Borges writes about his other, writing self, from which he felt separate but to which he was inevitably chained. That, and Borges’s propensity not so much to write fiction as to invent fact, made the “Autobiographical Notes.

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How much knowledge this autobiographical information can provide about Borges or about his writings is an open-ended question. Borges himself has tried to cast a dubious light on the art of.

In 1971, Jorge Luis Borges was invited to preside over a series of seminars on his writing at Columbia University. This book is a record of those seminars, which took the form of informal discussions between Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni--his editor and translator, Frank MacShane--then head of the writing program at Columbia, and the students.

In “An Autobiographical Essay,” written in the mid-1970s, Borges recalled his visits to Jerusalem: Early in 1969, invited by the Israeli government, I spent ten very exciting days in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. I brought home with me the conviction of having been in the oldest and the youngest of nations, of having come from a very living.

A central image in Borges's work is the labyrinth, a mental and poetic construct, that he considered a universe in miniature, which human beings build and therefore believe they control but which nevertheless traps them. In spite of Borges's belief that people cannot understand the chaotic world, he continually attempted to do so in his writing.