Biblografia borges
His work embraces the "chaos that rules the worldand the character of unreality in all literature."[1] His most famous books, Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949), are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes: dreams,labyrinths, libraries, fictional writers and works, religion, God. His works have contributed significantly to the genre of magical realism.[2] Scholars have noted that Borges's progressiveblindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination since "poets, like the blind, can see in the dark".[3][4] The poems of his late period dialogue with such cultural figuresas Spinoza, Luís de Camões, and Virgil.
His international fame was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by the "Latin American Boom" and the success of Gabriel García Márquez's Cien Años deSoledad.[2] Writer and essayist J. M. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish American novelists."[5]
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