Borges
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine writer whose short stories, essays, and poems explored infinity, labyrinths, mirrors, and the nature of reality.
His densely allusive fictions blur boundaries between philosophy and literature.
Borges never won the Nobel Prize, a widely noted omission.
As an adjective, Borgesian describes anything labyrinthine, recursive, or playing with infinite regress: The nested databases had a Borgesian quality.
Imagined narrative work
- poetryMetrical literary composition
- essaysShort nonfiction prose pieces
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
- fantasticRemarkably good or unreal
Kafka · Chesterton · Cervantes · Dante · encyclopedias · tigers · daggers · compass
Author of short prose
- poetWriter of verse
- translatorOne who renders between languages
- librarianCollection manager at reading hall
- anthologistCurator of collected works
fabulist · prose · narrative · editor · bibliophile · erudite · intellectual · blind
Unlimited extent or quantity
- eternityBoundless temporal existence
- timeMeasured passage of moments
- idealismBelief in noble principles
- paradoxSeemingly absurd truth
Zeno · Berkeley · Schopenhauer · solipsism · tiger · knife · dream · memory
fiction
Imagined narrative work
- poetryMetrical literary composition
- essaysShort nonfiction prose pieces
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
fantastic · Kafka · Chesterton · Cervantes · Dante · encyclopedias · tigers · daggers · compass · hourglass
essayist
Author of short prose
- poetWriter of verse
- translatorOne who renders between languages
- librarianCollection manager at reading hall
anthologist · fabulist · prose · narrative · editor · bibliophile · erudite · intellectual · blind
infinity
Unlimited extent or quantity
- eternityBoundless temporal existence
- timeMeasured passage of moments
- idealismBelief in noble principles
paradox · Zeno · Berkeley · Schopenhauer · solipsism · tiger · knife · dream · memory · identity
maze
Puzzle of passages
minotaur · intricate · winding · paradox · recursion · dead-end · garden · architecture · symmetry · repetition
Buenos Aires
Argentina's largest city
- ArgentinaBuenos Aires, tango, Messi, Patagonia, mate
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Escritoresbardo, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
- NovelistsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen
- Classic AuthorsShakespeare, Dante, Homer, Chaucer, Milton
BorgesHemingway
Jack London · Norman Mailer · Hunter S. Thompson · Orwell · documentary fiction
BorgesD.H. Lawrence
Pablo Neruda · Ernest Hemingway · Henry Miller · Jack London · nature writing
- Bjorn Borg
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Borg QueenCollective's central consciousness
- Borg cubeCubic alien warship