A biography of jorge luis borges

Jorge Luis Borges
Borges in the Hotel Beaux, Paris, 1968
Born	(1899-08-24)August 24, 1899 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	June 14, 1986(1986-06-14) (aged 86) Geneva, Switzerland
Occupation	writer, poet, critic, librarian

Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentinewriter.

He was best known in the English-speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays. Borges was also a poet, critic, translator and man of wisdom.

He was influenced by authors such as Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, H.G.

Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Schopenhauer and G. K. Chesterton.

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Quotations

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• "The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it." — (dogma of a fictional religion in "Hakim, the masked dyer of Merv".

  Part of this quote is also attributed to a heresiarch of Uqbar in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertiu