Books by "Jorge Luis Borges"

Jorge Luis Borges was born to an educated middle-class family on August 24, 1899. He was an Argentine writer, essayist and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 he moved with his family to Switzerland where he attended school and later travelled to Spain. He returned to Argentina in 1921 and published his poems and essays in literary journals.

Jorge Luis Borges took up writing very seriously and in 1930, Nestor Ibarra called Borges the "Great Apostle of Criollismo”. He published his first collection of poetry in 1923 and it was titled Fervor de Buenos Aires. Besides he contributed to the avant-garde review Martín Fierro as well. He also co-founded the journals Prisma, a broadsheet which was distributed largely by pasting copies to walls in Buenos Aires, and Proa. However later in life, he lamented some of these early publications and contemplated buying all known copies to ensure their destruction.

By the mid-1930s, Jorge Luis Borges began to explore existential questions and worked in a style that Ana María Barrenechea has called "irreality." He was not alone in this task as many other Latin American writers like Juan Rulfo, Juan José Arreola, and Alejo Carpentier, investigated these themes.  His important works include an exclusive collection of short stories, essays and anthologies.

His important anthological works include Antología personal (1961), Labyrinths (1962, anthology, in English),  Siete noches and Nueva antología personal. Essays and criticism may be obtained from the Inquisiciones, Prólogos, Nueve ensayos dantescos and Atlas. Poetry by Jorge Luis Borges is published in Fervor de Buenos Aires, Luna de enfrente, La Cifra and El otro, el mismo.

Jorge Luis Borges is most famous for his short stories and most of them reflect the nature of time, infinity, reality, philosophy and identity. His work in the non fiction genre includes film and book review, short biographies and long philosophical musings on the nature of dialogue, language and thought.