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Jorge Luis Borges (b. 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d. 1986, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Argentine short-story writer, poet, essayist and translator. He was one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century, inspiring generations of writers in the US and UK as well as his native Latin America. He is most famous for the short-story collections Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949).
Further acquaintance with the writings of Borges reveals a complex person who draws extensively from the world's literatures and philosophies, but who with the same breath denies his cosmopolitan urbanity... A highly personal offering. Borges is perhaps telling us that this interview experience was indeed a moment of self-knowledge, a moment suspended in time--that Richard Burgin did indeed help him to 'know himself.' -- New York Times Borges is arguably the great bridge between modernism and post-modernism in world literature. --David Foster Wallace, The New York Times Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes. . . . To have denied him the Nobel Prize is as bad as the case of Joyce, Proust, and Kafka. --Mario Vargas Llosa Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist. --Carlos Fuentes [Borges] has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place. --John Updike [Borges] engages the heart as well as the intelligence; his genius strikes, undismayed as Theseus, through the labyrinths of our life and time to the accomplishment of new, inspiring and stunningly beautiful work. --John Barth
