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Jorge Luis Borges

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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."

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September 24, 2023
اولین کتابی بود که از بورخس میخوندم قبل از این اصلا نمیشناختمش🙈

داستان اولش نامیرا منو یاد کتاب بائودولینو انداخت اون جایی ک بائودولینو پا به جنگل ناشناخته ها گذاشت و با هر موجود عجیب غریبی آشنا شد😍

و داستان آخرش "الف" منو یاد صد سال تنهایی انداخت 🥹 در کل که مشتاق شدم برم کتاب های دیگشم بخونم🙂🫰💫🌻
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April 25, 2024
تو چطور این کار رو می‌کنی مرد
چطور کسشعریجات مغزت رو جوری با واقعیت تلفیق می‌کنی که آدم موقع خوندنشون احساس دونستن و کفایت بهش دست میده؟
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May 3, 2025
پادکست «راجع به» در فصل دوم خود، یعنی «زمستان بعدی»، با اقتباسی خلاقانه و روایتی شنیدنی، این کتاب را به شکلی زنده و جذاب روایت کرده است. «راجع به» با اجرای گیرا و تحلیل‌های عمیق، راهی عالی برای غرق شدن در دنیای بورخس است، چه در حال خواندن کتاب باشید و چه بخواهید داستان‌ها را از زاویه‌ای جدید تجربه کنید.

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July 3, 2025
ترجمه طاهر نوکنده رو اصلا دوست نداشتم. ترجمه به دلیل جملات مقطع و پانویس‌های زیاد روان نبود. شاید اگر کتاب رو با ترجمه دیگه یا به زبان انگلیسی می‌خوندم لذت بیشتری می‌بردم چون داستان‌ها به نظر جالب بود.
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February 10, 2022
زمستان ۱۴۰۰
نامیرا بودن چیز پیش پا افتاده ای ست. جز آدمی، همه ی موجودات نامیرا هستند،چرا که از مرگ وقوف ندارند؛ علم به نامیرایی چیزی است الهی، خوفناک، فهم ناپذیر. ص ۲۷
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November 8, 2022
بعد خوندن هر داستان کوتاه هم خیلی خوشحال بودم که یه داستان عالی خوندم و هم ناراحت که چرا هیچی بلد نیستم و انقد کم بلدم از ادبیات 😅😅😅
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