In 1967, Jorge Luis Borges, 68 years old and almost ... he wasn’t entering a house but a labyrinth. To criticize Borges for not writing novels is to assume that the novel is superior to the ...

These and all other manner of the mystical, enigmatic and paradoxical imbued the writing of Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentine author whose concise, intricate work overflowed with wonder. He penned ...

Jorge Luis Borges’ mysterious stories broke new ground ... In creating the most original writing of his time, Borges taught us that nothing is new, that creation is recreation, that we are ...

Jorge Luis Borges, Author, Ursula K ... Borges (1899-1986), who began his career writing poetry, returned to it with fervor. This edition makes available for the first time in English an ...

Jorge Luis Borges, “Homage to Victoria Ocampo ... his poetic magic irresistibly even through translation. Borges on Writing (1974) is a painless introduction to the incidental prose.

I met Jorge Luis Borges once -- the man behind today’s birthday-celebrating Google Doodle-- when I was writing for the Chicago Sun-Times. The assignment should have never been mine -- I was just ...

I had just consumed The Brothers Karamazov and The Magic Mountain in rapid succession, and the brevity and intensity of Borges’s writing came as a revelation. Borges himself had something to say ...

This writing is as crude as a cudgel ... stage of study boredom know that in his story of an endless page Jorge Luis Borges was only describing what many of us call homework.

When María Kodama, the widow of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges ... when barely out of his teens in 1920, Borges was already writing poems inspired by Yiddishkeit, like “Judería ...

Marc Turtletaub is directing Oren Moverman's adaptation of Jay Parini’s memoir on his 1970s trip through the Scottish Highlands with Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. By Scott Roxborough ...