![]() ![]() The family lived in a large house with an English library of over one thousand volumes Borges would later remark that "if I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library." Jorge Luis Borges was taught at home until the age of 11, was bilingual in Spanish and English, reading Shakespeare in the latter at the age of twelve. Jorge Luis Borges wrote, "as most of my people had been soldiers and I knew I would never be, I felt ashamed, quite early, to be a bookish kind of person and not a man of action." Borges said his father "tried to become a writer and failed in the attempt", despite the 1921 opus El caudillo. Borges Haslam was a lawyer and psychology teacher who harboured literary aspirations. It was published in a local journal, but Borges's friends thought the real author was his father. Īged ten, Jorge Luis Borges translated Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince into Spanish. Borges Haslam wed Leonor Acevedo Suárez in 1898 and their offspring also included the painter Norah Borges, sister of Jorge Luis Borges. The family frequently traveled to Europe. Borges Haslam grew up speaking English at home. Borges Haslam was born in Entre Ríos of Spanish, Portuguese, and English descent, the son of Francisco Borges Lafinur, a colonel, and Frances Ann Haslam, an Englishwoman. Acevedo Laprida died of pulmonary congestion in the house where his grandson Jorge Luis Borges was born.Īccording to a study by Antonio Andrade, Jorge Luis Borges had Portuguese ancestry: Borges's great-grandfather, Francisco, was born in Portugal in 1770, and lived in Torre de Moncorvo, in the North of the country before he emigrated to Argentina, where he married Cármen Lafinur.īorges's own father, Jorge Guillermo Borges Haslam, was a lawyer, and wrote the novel El caudillo in 1921. A descendant of the Argentine lawyer and politician Francisco Narciso de Laprida, Acevedo Laprida fought in the battles of Cepeda in 1859, Pavón in 1861, and Los Corrales in 1880. His 1929 book Cuaderno San Martín includes the poem "Isidoro Acevedo", commemorating his grandfather, Isidoro de Acevedo Laprida, a soldier of the Buenos Aires Army. Her family had been much involved in the European settling of South America and the Argentine War of Independence, and she spoke often of their heroic actions. Borges's mother, Leonor Acevedo Suárez, came from a traditional Uruguayan family of criollo (Spanish) origin. They were in comfortable circumstances but not wealthy enough to live in downtown Buenos Aires so the family resided in Palermo, then a poorer neighbourhood. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was born into an educated middle-class family on 24 August 1899. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists." Life and career Early life and education He dedicated his final work, The Conspirators, to the city of Geneva, Switzerland. His international reputation was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by the growing number of English translations, the Latin American Boom, and by the success of García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first Formentor Prize, which he shared with Samuel Beckett. Borges himself was fluent in several languages. By the 1960s, his work was translated and published widely in the United States and Europe. Scholars have suggested that his progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. He became completely blind by the age of 55. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. The family travelled widely in Europe, including Spain. īorn in Buenos Aires, Borges later moved with his family to Switzerland in 1914, where he studied at the Collège de Genève. ![]() Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. ![]() His best-known works, Ficciones ( transl. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ( / ˈ b ɔːr h ɛ s/ BOR-hess, Spanish: ⓘ 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. ![]()
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