Borges, Jorge Luis
Borges, Jorge Luis ( 1899 – 1986 ),Argentinian writer, born in Buenos Aires and educated ( 1914 – 18 ) in Geneva; one of his grandmothers was English and from an early age he read English literature (notably the works of Wilde , De Quincey , R. L. Stevenson , and Chesterton ). After some time in Spain, where he was associated with the Spanish literary movement ultraísmo (a form of Spanish Expressionism ), he returned in 1921 to Argentina, where for a time he championed the ultraist cause, partly through the periodical Proa. His first volume of poetry, Fervor de Buenos Aires ( 1923 ), was followed by many other volumes of verse and essays, but he is best known for his short stories, of which the first volume, Historia universal de la infamia ( 1935 ; A Universal History of Infamy), has been acclaimed as a landmark in Latin American literature and the first work of ...
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