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| A Little Basic Information About Borges | ||||||||||
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| His birth place was Buenos Aires, Argentina on Augest 24 1899. Pronouce his name HOR-hay LWEES BHOR-hays. Most of Borges stories and poems are aimed at the universe. He writes both poetry and fiction. Borges married twice while older. Borges believed that literature should not have anything to do with politics. Most of his writing was influenced by European culture. Borges died in 1986. |
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| "When the end draws near, there no longer remains any remembered images; only words remain. It is not strange that time should have confused the words that once represented me with those that were symbols of the fate of he who accompanied me for so many centuries. I have been Homer, shortly I shall be On One, like Ulysses, shortly I shall be all men, I shall be dead." (from 'The Immortal') | ||||||||||