Poesia Completa

by Jorge Luis Borges

Genres: Poetry

Unknown Binding

About the author

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
Born in Buenos Aires, Borges later moved with his family to Switzerland in 1914, where he studied at the Collège de Genève. The family travelled widely in Europe, including Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He became completely blind by the age of 55. Scholars have suggested that his progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. By the 1960s, his work was translated and published widely in the United States and Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages.
In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first Formentor Prize, which he shared with Samuel Beckett. In 1971, he won the Jerusalem Prize. His international reputation was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by the growing number of English translations, the Latin American Boom, and by the success of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. He dedicated his final work, The Conspirators, to the city of Geneva, Switzerland. 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."

Reviews

[Guillermo Jiménez · Rating 5 out of 5]

El universo poético de Borges guarda evidentes analogías con sus cuentos, sin duda la cumbre de su literatura y una de las cumbres de la literatura universal. En su poesía no se encuentra la musicalidad ni el lirismo ni el erotismo, la magia o la fuerza deslumbrante de un Neruda o un Lorca, pero se encuentra al Borges de siempre. Una poesía filosófica, precisa, exacta que nos abisma al misterio, a la soledad, al tiempo, a los grandes enigmas de la condición humana, a distintos misterios, al mundo clásico, a sus pasiones literarias, al universo onirico, a Buenos Aires y a la tradición sajona.

[Lu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Esta antología poética, reunida de manera cronológica, nos permite visitar a Borges a lo largo de diferentes décadas y comprobar que sus inquietudes siempre son las mismas. Tiene además un tesoro grande, que está en sus prólogos, donde nos deja incluso pistas de cómo le gustaría ser recordado. Tiene paisajes sombríos y brillantes. Ideal para todo amante de Borges o para todo aquel que se sienta interpelado por el paso del tiempo, el universo, la muerte, la melancolía y la belleza.

[Jaime Alberto · Rating 5 out of 5]

Haría un ensayo hablando de todas las maravillas que tiene Borges. Este libro esta repleto de metáfora, figuras literarias, soledad y sobre todo un sentido de esperanza melancólica sobre los intereses del poeta Argentino, si quieres empezar por leer a Borges ampliamente recomiendo iniciar por su poesia. Jugar de detective intentando entender sus referencias literiarias es enriquecedor y divertido