Borges
[bawr-hes]
- Jor·ge Luis [hawr-he lwees] /ˈhɔr hɛ lwis/, 1899–1986, Argentine poet, short-story writer, and philosophical essayist.
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Still other critics are baffled that Borges was influenced by such strange and disparate sources.
Over the next couple of years, though, some felt a letdown when they discovered that Borges had written no long works.
Borges had an almost Evelyn Waugh-like capacity for sucking up to the upper classes.
It was not a wise move, but then Borges was never known for wise moves except when writing.
Borges, at first, was oblivious to her absolute lack of intellectual acuity.
Borges
- 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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