Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 122. Chapters: Jorge Luis Borges, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, Italo Calvino, Robert Anton Wilson, Thomas Pynchon, Chuck Palahniuk, J. G. Ballard, Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, Hélène Cixous, Jean Baudrillard, Samuel R. Delany, Dan Graham, Joseph Heller, István Cs. Bartos, Donald Barthelme, Hedwig Gorski, Julio Cortázar, Bernd Dost, Ishmael Reed, Larry McCaffery, Rosi Braidotti, Mitch Berman, William Gaddis, Frank Popper, Takeshi Kawamura, Perry Hoberman, Niall Lucy, Hayden White, Catherynne M. Valente, David Wojnarowicz, Julian Barnes, Henry Flynt, Hakim Bey, John Barth, Davis Schneiderman, Roy Ascott, Tim O'Brien, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Jussi Parikka, Steven Millhauser, Mircea Cartarescu, Lance Olsen, Wolfgang Staehle, Dominique Moulon, Norma Elia Cantú, Joseph Kosuth, Jack Goldstein, Thierry de Duve, Michael Rees, Christiane Paul, Mark Leyner, Craig Owens, Igor Sergei Klinki, Knowbotic Research, Won-il Rhee, Margot Lovejoy, Mark Poster, Andrew Deutsch, Arturo Escobar, Eckhard Gerdes, Louise Lawler, James Chapman, Francisco Luis Bernárdez, Joseph McElroy, Carlo McCormick, Char Davies, Charles Winquist, Akira Asada, James Olthuis, Prakash Kona, I Rivers, Evan Dara, Arnold Skemer, Susan Hekman. Excerpt: Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (August 24, 1899 - June 14, 1986), best known as Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish pronunciation: ), was an Argentine writer, essayist, and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to 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 (Biblioteca Nacional) and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1961 he came to international attention when he received the first International Publishers' Prize, the Prix Formentor. In 1971 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages. He died in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1986. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature." His most famous books, Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949), are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes such as dreams, labyrinths, libraries, fictional writers, religion and God. His works have contributed to the genre of magical realism, a genre that reacted against the realism/naturalism of the nineteenth century. In fact, critic Angel Flores, the first to use the term, set the beginning of this movement with Borges's Historia universal de la infamia (1935). Scholars also have suggested that Borges's progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. His late poems dialogue with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil. His international fame was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by the "Latin American Boom" and the success of Gabriel García Márquez's Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude). Writer and essayist J. M. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction
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1157383742
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Englisch
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Postmodernists
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122 Seiten
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2011
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Books Llc, Reference Series
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