Jorge Luis Borges

The blind librarian of Buenos Aires whose short fictions — labyrinths, libraries, mirrors — rewrote what fiction could do.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1899 – 1986

language

Spanish

region

Buenos Aires, Argentina

notable works

Ficciones, The Aleph, 'The Library of Babel'

Core Principles & Analysis

• He directed Argentina's National Library while going blind.
• Ficciones' metaphysical detective stories made him world literature's quiet revolutionary.
• The Boom generation, and magic realism's reach, stand on his experiments.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Jorge Luis Borges