Today Marks the 40th Anniversary of the Death of Jorge Luis Borges
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“If you want to know what happened between Borges and me after, when I was a teenager, I read to you, the answer is short,” the former director of the National Library, who made the public laugh and think about a talk, also spoke to specialist Annick Louis.
GENEVA-. Forty yellow roses for Jorge Luis Borges, “one for every year of eternity”: with an emotional symbolic offering he paid homage this Sunday to the Argentine writer in the cemetery of Plainpalais, in Geneva, to forty years exactly after his death. The color chosen was not casual: yellow roses occupy a privileged place in the Borgian imaginary and refer to one of the most persistent symbols of his work. In his literary universe, yellow ros…
The Swiss city where Jorge Luis Borges lived in his adolescence and chose to die was the scene of a special tribute. Borges was presented there, the collection, a volume that brings together manuscripts, letters, first editions and objects linked to the writer. The act coincided with the 40th anniversary of his death and renewed the debate about the fate of his remains.
Borges and the futJorge Luis Borges died on June 14, 1986, in Geneva, Switzerland. At that time the Football World Cup was held in Mexico. The next day, on June 15, the Mexican National Team defeated in Azteca Stadium 2 to 0 that of Bulgaria in the eighth of the finals, which would allow it to compete the famous “fifth match” that has become stigmatized for those who debate all the time about Mexican football and its failures. The record says th…
Madrid, 14 Jun (EFE).- Argentine writer, poet and essayist, contributed to philosophical literature, the fantastic genre and post-structuralism, and influenced the magical realism of Latin American literature of the 20th century.It was Cervantes Prize ex aequo 1979- La entrada Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Jorge Luis Borges was first published in HolaNews.
“The renown that Borges enjoyed during his life, documented by a cluster of monographs and polemics, does not fail to amaze us now. We know that the first amazement was he and that he was always afraid that he would be declared an impostor or a blunder or a singular mixture of both.” Thus says the entry dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges in a South American Encyclopedia dated 2074. With irony, erratas and anachronism, he wrote it, of course, Borges …
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