See you next Friday. POEMS OF THE NIGHT, by Jorge Luis Borges. Various translators. Read by Juanita Devis. Jorge Luis Borges might be best known for his fiction, but it can’t be forgotten that ...

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 ...

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1968) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist and poet who, along with Gabriel Marquez and Elizabeth Allende, is considered one of the founders of Magical Realism ...

Jorge Luis Borges was a poet, but he was also a dreamer of wild fiction, a thoughtful essayist, and—in all of his works—a philosopher. He was always pulling at the threads of perspective and ...

For 12 years, starting in 1956, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986 ... He would speculate, digress, summarize the plots of poems and say things like "defeats are better than victories for poetry ...

Jorge Luis Borges’ mysterious stories broke ... than his surrounding reality,” says Yates. As a boy, Borges wrote poetry and visited the library regularly to read long articles by authors ...

Jorge Luis Borges focuses his nearly sightless eyes somewhere above the Sanders Theater ceiling. If the word charismatic can describe a man talking about the art of poetry, it describes Borges ...

When it came to settling on a single book, in the end it had to be Borges – and it had to be this one. Other books have had a powerful impact on me, but none marked a turning point in my ...