1950 won the Argentine National Literature Award, 196 1 won the Formento Award in Spain, and 1979 won the Cervantes Award in Spain. His childhood passion was Montevideo. It is the capital of Uruguay across the wide and slow La Plata River from Buenos Aires. "You belong to us, you are like a party, just like the stars reflected in the water. At the wrong time exit, your street is staring at the brightest past. " The poet made no secret of his depravity. "Your low sun hasn't shone on my curtains yet, and it has brought happiness to your villa"; Although Borges later wrote a poem similar to "It is hard to believe that Buenos Aires has a beginning, and I feel it is as eternal as air and water", he privately talked about it as his own failure. In his later years, Borges still said that "Buenos Aires is incredibly big, and no one can understand it". 1955, after the government of Peron stepped down, he was appointed as the director of the Argentine National Library by the new government. Unfortunately, due to a serious eye disease, he was almost blind. He laughed at himself and said, "Fate gave me 800,000 books, which I was in charge of, but it also gave me darkness." However, blindness did not take away Borges' artistic life. With the help of his mother and friends, he continued to create with infinite perseverance and revised and published some early works. At the same time, he was invited to give lectures in European and American universities many times. The main works of this period are: Labyrinth (1964), Brody's Report (197 1), Sand Picking (1975) and Tiger Gold (1).
Jorges luis borges,1August 24, 899-1June 986 14), an Argentine writer. His works cover many literary categories, including essays, poems, literary criticism and translated literature. Among them, Latin meaningful words and profound philosophy are good at it.
Borges 1899 1999 was born on August 24th, 1999 in a family of English lawyers at 840 Tucumá n Street in the center of Buenos Aires. Father Jorge Guillermo Borges (1874- 1938) is a lawyer and a psychology teacher in modern language normal school. He is proficient in English and has a large collection of books in various languages. Mother Leonor Acevedo (1876-1975) was born in a noble family. After marriage, she does housework, but she also reads widely and has good English. Grandmother Frances (Fanny) Haslam (1845- 1935) is British, and English is her mother tongue. Although J.L. Borges was influenced by this strong English environment since he was a child, he lived in Spanish-speaking Argentina after all. According to the author, he first learned Spanish and then mastered English.
190 1 year, the Borges family moved from their grandfather's home 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 years, my 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 works are only experimental 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 leaving office, Peron was appointed as the director of the Argentine National Library on 10/95517; 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.
Borges' works
Prose collection "Discussion Collection" and "Measures I Hope"
Biography of evaristo Callego
Essay collection "Discussion Collection"
Novel collection "novel collection"
Collection of Prose Comments "Preface Integration"
Poetry anthology "Deep Rose"
Prose "What is Buddhism? 》
Poems and Proses Anthem and Ode to the Shadow
Lectures "Borges Oral" and "Qixi"
Poems: The Moon in Front, Notes of Saint Martin, Days, Conspiracy, Passion of Buenos Aires, Tales of the Night, Iron Coins and Rain.
Collection of Short Stories: Biography of Villains, Memory of Shakespeare, Alef, Dream Book, Book of Sand, Another One.
A garden with forked paths, a collection of novels