Borges

[ bawr-hes ]

noun

1. Jor·ge Luis [hawr, -he lwees], 1899–1986, Argentine poet, short-story writer, and philosophical essayist.

Borges

/ ˈborxes /

noun

1. BorgesJorge Luis18991986MArgentinianWRITING: poetWRITING: short-story writerWRITING: literary scholar Jorge Luis (ˈxorxe lwis). 1899–1986, Argentinian poet, short-story writer, and literary scholar. The short stories collected in Ficciones (1944) he described as "games with infinity"

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Maria Borges, an African model in her second VS show, said everyone back home in Angola would be watching her.

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Still other critics are baffled that Borges was influenced by such strange and disparate sources.

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Over the next couple of years, though, some felt a letdown when they discovered that Borges had written no long works.

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Borges had an almost Evelyn Waugh-like capacity for sucking up to the upper classes.

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It was not a wise move, but then Borges was never known for wise moves except when writing.

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In 1515 he received a sum of money to enable his sister Felipa Borges to marry.

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