190 1 year, the Borges family moved from their grandfather's house at No.840 Tucumá n Street to a tall and spacious two-story building with a garden at No.2135/47 Serrano Street (now renamed Borges Street) in Palermo District in the north of the capital. The writer spent his childhood and adolescence here. My father set up a library in this comfortable building, which has a large collection of precious literary classics. Borges was able to listen to and appreciate them from his grandmother and English female teachers, and soon he was immersed in them and enjoyed them.
Influenced by his family, Borges loved reading and writing since he was a child, and he showed strong creative desire and literary talent since he was a child. At the age of seven, he abbreviated a Greek myth in English. According to Don Quixote, when he was eight years old, he wrote a story in Spanish called "Fatal Eye Protection". /kloc-at the age of 0/0, the translation of the fairy tale "Happy Prince" by the British writer Wilde was published in the National newspaper, signed by Jorges Borges. Its translation is very mature and is considered to be written by his father.
19 14, his father was almost blind due to eye diseases and decided to retire, so Jorge Luis took his family to Europe, traveled all over Britain and France and settled in Geneva, Switzerland. Borges officially went to middle school, learning French, German, Latin and other languages. With a unique language environment, studious Borges is eager to browse world famous books. He studied Dude, Zola, Mo Bosang, Hugo, Flaubert, Thomas Carlyle, chesterman, Stevenson, Kipling, De Quincy, Poe, Whitman, Heine, Melink, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche ... which had a great and far-reaching influence on his later literary creation and laid a very solid foundation.
19 19 to 1920, moved to Spain with his family. During this period, he interacted with some young extremist writers, co-founded literary publications, actively wrote articles, and created a group of poems "Red Melody" and a collection of short stories "Gambling Cards". However, Borges modestly believes that these are only experiments and have not been published.
192 1 After returning to Buenos Aires, Borges seemed to be driven by fate, went to the paradise in his heart-the library, and worked in the library all his life. He served as the staff and curator of public libraries in Buenos Aires, and was a bourgeois Democrat. At the same time, carry out literary creation, run magazines, give lectures and other activities. 1923, the first book of poetry, Passion of Buenos Aires, was officially published (1922 was published at its own expense for the first time), and the two later books of poetry, The Moon in Front (1925) and Notes of San Martin (1929), were free in form.
1946 to 1955 During Peron's reign, he was removed from the post of director of the municipal library because he signed a declaration against Peron, and was insulted and ordered to be a market poultry inspector. In order to maintain his personality and dignity, he is not afraid of power. Refused to take office and issued an open letter to protest, which won wide support from the intellectual community. 1950, due to the support of many writers, Borges was elected as the chairman of the Argentine Writers Association. This is tantamount to giving the Peron government a loud slap in the face. After Peron's death,1October 1955 17 was appointed as the director of the Argentine National Library; At the same time, he is also a professor of English literature in the Department of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. In the 1960s, he gave lectures at the University of Texas and other schools.
In his later years, Borges left the coast of Buenos Aires as a quadruple and began his short career of crossing the ocean. His destination is Geneva. Like other old people who felt that their time was running out, Borges chose to return to his roots, and he died in Geneva as he wished.
Borges has been reading and writing all his life, and he is handy. Blind in his later years, he continued to write silently and made amazing achievements. However, his married life is not satisfactory. He was single for a long time, and his mother took care of his life until he was 68 (1967). He married the widowed Elsa Astete milian and divorced three years later. After his mother died, he finally decided that Maria Eryu, the Japanese female secretary who followed him for many years, was his lifelong companion. They got married in Geneva on April 26th, 1986, and declared her the sole legal heir to his property, so as to keep, organize and publish his works. On June 14 of the same year, the great literary master Borges finally died in Geneva because of the ineffective treatment of liver cancer.