Description: Very light shelf and usage wear. A good, clean copy of book. No markings or writing inside book. Please see pictures of actual book. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (August 24, 1899 June 14, 1986), best known as Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish pronunciation: ), was an Argentine writer, essayist, and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955 he was appointed director of the National Public Library (Biblioteca Nacional) and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1961 he came to international attention when he received the first International Publishers' Prize, the Prix Formentor. In 1971 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages. He died in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1986. His work embraces the 'character of unreality in all literature.' His most famous books, Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949), are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes such as dreams, labyrinths, libraries, fictional writers, religion and God. His works have contributed to the genre of magical realism, a genre that reacted against the realism/naturalism of the nineteenth century. In fact, critic Angel Flores, the first to use the term, set the beginning of this movement with Borges's Historia universal de la infamia (1935). Scholars also have suggested that Borges's progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination.
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Book Title: Postmodernists : Jorge Luis Borges, Philip K. Dick
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Item Length: 9in.
Publisher: General Books LLC
Original Language: English
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Publication Year: 2010
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
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Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Multiple
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Genre: Philosophy, World literature & Classics
Topic: Science
Item Width: 6in.
Item Weight: 26.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 514 Pages
