Biography of Jorge Luis Borges

Lighthouse in the darkness

24 August 1899 14 July 1986 Between the highest literary geniuses of the 20th century, Argentina's Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was born on 24 August 1899 in Buenos Aires. The main events related to the family of Borges are biographical and identify themselves with the fates of his ancestors. From a genealogy of scholars and military Borges inherits total love for literature and regret for its failure to a career in the army. From 1914 to 1921 follows her parents in Europe. He attended school in Geneva and in Spain, where it is in contact with the avant-garde literary and writing his first poems. In 1923 is published his first book of poetry, "Fervor de Buenos Aires", followed two years later by the second book of verse, "Luna de Enfrente." It's in 1925 that Borges meets Victoria Ocampo, the muse who can marry forty years later. With her intellectual understanding establishes intended to enter into the mythology of Argentine literature. Publishing activity of Borges is tireless. The verses of "Cuaderno San Martín" come out in 1929, and a year later published the "Evaristo Carriego", which inspires the criticism. But a sword of Damocles hanging over the poor Argentine writer: blindness. Borges, who never enjoyed a good view, will become totally blind since the end of the years ' 50, after having visited the operating room for nine times. But this horrible disease comes from him surprisingly used creatively, his visionary power exploited the terrible evil, stared due in literary and metaphor. The culmination of this process of "sublimation" between 1933 and 1934, when the literary plane Borges creates textures using the story as a lie, like forgery, plagiarism and parody. Collects stories published in the magazine "Critics": is the genesis of the "Historia universal de la infamia", followed by "Historia de la eternidad", where history and Know flirting to produce the improbable and the exotic result of a treaty worthy of a demiurge gone mad. Annus horribilis: the 1938. Borges's beloved father dies and the writer himself has an accident that forces him to immobility for quite some time, after a bout of septicaemia which seriously threatens life. It is feared that this dramatic situation may result in a total loss of terror Borges creativity. Nothing further from the truth: during the years of Argentine writer disease conceives some among his masterpieces, which are collected and published in 1944 under the title "Fictions". Five years come out even the tales of "Aleph". At this point, Borges is one of the most important Argentine writers of all time. Virtuosista of race, confirms its fame dropping in terms of pure fiction, with its famous "Other inquisitions" (1952). In 1955 he was appointed Director of the National Library Jorge Luis Borges, what he had always dreamed of doing. With spirit eminently bourgeois structure, the writer so the nomination: "it's a sublime divine irony to have me with eight hundred thousand books and at the same time of darkness". It is the beginning of a long and prolific sunset, despite the death occurs much later, on June 14, 1986. Beside Borges is his second wife, the beloved María Kodama. His life has inspired several filmmakers Argentines. Just to mention one, Javier Torre, with the film "Estela Canto, Um Amor de Borges" (1999), in which the main character is the beautiful Ines Sastre.
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