Read in both English and Spanish by Juanita Devis, the Argentine writer’s verses trace his descent into blindness. By Elena Sheppard When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, ...

The first volume in Planeta's new line of bilingual (English-Spanish) books presents Borges's autobiographical notes, which were originally published in the New Yorker on September 19, 1970. In them ...

The first volume in Planeta's new line of bilingual (English-Spanish) books presents Borges's autobiographical notes, which were originally published in the New ...

In the April 1969 issue of The Atlantic, Borges conjured the sort of surreal, disorienting world for which he had become internationally renowned. A year before his own work was first published in the ...

All things are words of some foreign tongue someone or something, on a nightmarish day-and-night shift, translates in an unrelenting dirge we call the history of the world — embracing Carthage, Rome, ...

The Argentine author is best known for his complex, surrealist short stories and poems, but few know about his friendship with David Ben-Gurion. (JTA) — Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is best ...

For 12 years, starting in 1956, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) taught a course in English literature at the University of Buenos Aires. The blind Argentine literary master would sit without notes ...

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. A poet, short-story writer, essayist, and translator, he is among the most influential and accomplished literary figures of the last century. He is ...

The Borges magic. If you'd been to the first Charles Eliot Norton lecture, you were under the spell again in four seconds. If the second lecture was your first, it took a minute longer. Jorge Luis ...