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Legacy of Jorge Luis Borges

“An author who delighted in writing reviews of nonexistent books has thus become the subject of books about his oft-professed humdrum existence as an essayist, editor, poet and writer of stories, a librarian and, later, a teacher of literature” - Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria. "Man Without A Life." The New York Times, 31 Aug. 1997

“Borges is a "romancer," a teller of tales, a bit of a magician and puzzle-artist, a virtuoso of the symbol-tale, the legend told and retold from many an old manse, the quest. He is a writer fascinated and appalled by the empty space that broods over his stories like a curse” - Alfred Kazin. "Meeting Borges." The New York Times, 2 May 1971

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was born on August 24, 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Borges was raised in a bilingual family, but read English well before Spanish. He grew up in an area where prostitution, violent gang and knife fights, and hoodlums were all prominent. Borges’s father, Jorge Guillermo Borges, was described as being extremely intellectual and known for being a university professor of psychology and modern languages, a lawyer, and a writer. His mother, Leonor Acevedo de Borges, was the descendant of a long line of freedom fighters and soldiers (http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/00/pwillen1/lit/index3.htm). The Borges’s family possessed a boundless library, which was were Borges often escaped to. As quoted in the web-page “Jorge Luis Borges” on Enotes.com, “For many years, he imagined himself a companion to those outlaws, until he grew up and faced the truth, which was that he spent most of his youth locked away in the safety of his family’s library with a seemingly endless supply of books that fed his imagination” (http://www.enotes.com/authors/jorge-luis-borges). I can relate to Borges’s thirst for reading as a youth and understand how he can dissolve into the pages of a story to get away from reality as I have done numerous times. I think because Jorge Luis Borges read so much is one reason that he became one of the smartest men of the twentieth century. Born in 1902, Norah was Borges’s younger sister and closest friend for majority of his childhood. Borges was of mixed descent, his father being of English and Portuguese blood, while his mother’s side of the family had relatives in Uruguay.

Life Challenges

Achievements of the Argentine

Impact on Community

I admire Jorge Luis Borges for multiple reasons. As quoted in the web-page “Jorge Luis Borges” on Enotes.com, “ Borges enrolled in the College de Geneve, where he studied Latin, French, German, and the European philosophers, especially Schopenhauer and Bishop Berkley, whose dark pessimistic and antimaterialist influences can be perceived in the worldview of his literary work” (http://www.enotes.com/authors/jorge-luis-borges). I admire him for having a hunger to learn and master multiple languages. I see Borges as a role model for me, and I wish to one day to perform around the vicinity of his level of knowledge. In my opinion, Borges lived a full life and got the most out of it as he could. He spent his life in solitude and enriching his brain in knowledge. The French phrase “savior c’est pouvoir,” meaning “knowledge is power” in English, is my motto and I think that Borges learned as much as he could, and thus he saw the world in a new way. I want to have a broader understanding of everything, be the best student I can be, and gain an education that will be a gift I give myself. I also admire Jorge Luis Borges because he did what he wanted to do and lived his own life the way he wished to. Later on in his life, Borges also spread his knowledge in lectures and through teaching. I admire him by even at the age of 87, for still lecturing and teaching. He shows that we continue to learn and teach until our dying day.

Jorge Luis Borges has a legacy as being one of the smartest, most well educated-men of the twentieth century. Borges’s childhood was spent mainly in the solitude of his family library. He learned numerous languages and reached out to teach mankind a lesson through his essays and writings. Charles Newton says, “Despite the confusion, Borges allows us to see man is not the center of the universe. His legacy is a philosophical re-evaluation of our concepts of reality based upon our perceptions of time, language, and society” (Newton Interview). Bruno Bosteels, University of Pennsylvania, writes in the article “ After Borges: Literary criticism and critical theory” that, “ The writings of Jorge Luis Borges are finely in tune with some of the most innovative trends in contemporary criticism and theory, especially in answer to the questioning of subjectivity and representation in the human sciences” (http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9543052/). Jorge Luis Borges offered a new outlook on the world and essence of society that lives in his works and is remaining on even after his recent death. People will continue to learn from him and the messages in his writing and lectures. He is remembered as intellectual and a man of books, solitude, and pure knowledge.

The Blind Librarian

Jorge not only overcame his own challenges, but he contributed to society in numerous way, especially later in his lifetime. Naomi Lindstrom writes in The World Book Encyclopedia that in the 1920s Borges founded Buenos Aire’s avant-garde, an experimental art movement, and was an innovative poet at the same period (487). Borges originally found out about the avant-garde in Paris, however he later took it back to his hometown in Argentina, Buenos Aires. Borges helped establish several literary journals, and published essays on metaphyisics and language. Later in his life, even though he was blind, was when Borges really gave back to his community. He gave lectures all over the world, including at prestigious colleges including Harvard. He became a teacher, even in his 80s. Charles Newton tells about attending one of Borge’s lectures, “ I saw him in the main quad at the University of Texas at Austin. Walking with a young woman. A student, I guess. He said this to her while she was guiding him and holding his arm, ‘Tell me what you see.’ ” Newton mention how the phrase “tell me what you see” means to him that Borges is just happy to have still been alive at that time. He says that while Spanish was Borges’ language, he only gave lectures in English or French. “Jorge walked away from a free job under a dictator. He chose to follow his conscience rather than allow himself to be subsumed by a dictatorship,” Mr. Newton adds. Charles Newton then closes with, “ Language defines humanity.” Jorge Luis Borges was a librarian, essayist, writer, and teacher. He shared his knowledge with other scholars who had a thirst to learn around the world.

Childhood and Background

Impact on Community

Jorge Luis Borges is remembered today as one of the most intellectual people in the twentieth century. Naomi Lindstrom writes in "Borges, Jorge Luis” in the The World Book Encyclopedia that Borges’s greatest accomplishments include the, “ complex beauty of his literary language, his ability to turn philosophical topics into literature, and his insights into the organization of the mind” (487). In addition, Lindstrom mentions that Borges won international acclaim for his distinct fictions and that he wrote numerous successful works including Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949) (487). Charles Newton, published philosopher and noted historian, said, “ Jorge Luis Borges overcame wars and strife and personal setbacks and political upheaval, and yet he was able to overcome it all and give us his beautiful legacy.”

The Art Of Poetry · Borges (English Subtitles)

Introduction: A Man of Books and Solitude

Introduction: The Man of Books and Solitude

Why do I admire Borges?

The Legacy

Works Cited

Jorge Luis Borges was bullied at school in Argentina, however in 1914 Borges’s life was changed dramatically. His father packed up the family and moved to Europe where they settled in Geneva, Switzerland. Because of World War One, the Borges family was not able to move back to Argentina. However, this change proved to benefit Jorge Luis Borges in many ways. Borges attended college and learned to speak Latin, German, and French. At age 29 Borges fell in love with Elsa Astete. However, after much deception, she abandoned Borges and married another man. It was not until Borges was in his sixties that he reunited with Elsa, and she became his first wife (http://www.enotes.com/authors/jorge-luis-borges). As Paul M. Willenberg wrote in his biographical sketch of Jorge Luis Borges, “ blindness was beginning to manifest itself in Borges as it had in his father, who was now completely blind. In 1927 he had an operation for cataracts; it would be the first of a long series of eight operations. None would succeed, and by the end of his life he would be totally blind” (http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/00/pwillen1/lit/index3.htm).

Over the course of his life, Borges developed his skills as a writer and poet.. During the 30s, there was an economic crisis which never affected his family, though. In 1938, Borges suffered a wound on his head and it got infected. After an operation, Borges developed septicemia, the invasion of bacteria in the blood stream. This near death experience changed his outlook and caused him to begin writing in a new style. Jorge Luis Borges’s father, whom he adored, also died the same year. After his disease, Borges feared that he had lost his creative ability. Borges was actually about to reach the turning point in his career and achieve worldwide fame not long after. Paul M. Willenberg in his biological sketch of Jorge writes, “In 1946 Juan Perón was "elected" president, and due to his political affiliations, Borges was "promoted" to "Inspector of Poultry and Rabbits in the Public Markets." He immediately decided to resign, remarking that ‘dictatorships foment subservience, dictatorships foment cruelty; even more abominable is the fact that they foment stupidity. To fight against those sad monotonies is one of the many duties of writers.’" (http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/00/pwillen1/lit/index3.htm). Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria writes in his August 31, 1997 New York Times article “ A Man Without A Life”,which Gonzalez explains his outlook on the book Borges: A Life by James Woodall, that, “ Unfortunately, Woodall's misconception tends to turn Borges's opposition to Peron, whom Borges blamed for his removal from his post as a librarian, into a cheap psychosexual drama in which the writer repudiated the leader's macho model because he could never measure up to it himself.”

Astete and Borges

Works Cited

Bosteels, B. "After Borges: Literary Criticism and Critical Theory". ScholarlyCommons | University of Pennsylvania Research. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. <http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9543052/>.

Echevarria, Roberto Gonzalez. "Man Without A Life." The New York Times, 31 Aug. 1997. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. <http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/31/reviews/970831.31gonz01.html>.

"Jorge Luis Borges." ENotes - Literature Study Guides, Lesson Plans, and More.Web. 28 Sept. 2011. <http://www.enotes.com/authors/jorge-luis-borges>.

"Jorge Luis Borges Criticism." ENotes - Literature Study Guides, Lesson Plans, and More.Web. 28 Sept. 2011. <http://www.enotes.com/jorge-luis-borges-criticism/borges-jorge-luis-79593>.

Kazin, Alfred. "Meeting Borges." The New York Times, 2 May 1971. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. <http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/31/reviews/borges-meeting.html>.

Lindstrom, Naomi. "Borges, Jorge Luis." The World Book Encyclopedia. 2010 ed. Vol. 2. 487. Print.

Newton, Charles. Personal Interview. September 27,2011.

Núñez-Faraco, Humberto. Borges and Dante: Echoes of a Literary Friendship. Oxford: Lang, 2006. Print. ( Núñez-Faraco, Humberto. "Borges and Dante: Echoes of a Literary Friendship." Google Books. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. <http://books.google.com/books?id=_E7JIIrtsBYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Borges+and+Dante:+Echoes+of+a+Literary+Friendship&hl=en&ei=GbmDTqa5DvTQiAL7sZCtCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false>..)

"The Garden of Jorge Luis Borges." SCCS - Swarthmore College Computer Society. Web. 26 Sept. 2011. <http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/00/pwillen1/lit/index3.htm>.

"Septicemia | Define Septicemia at Dictionary.com." Dictionary.com | Find the Meanings and Definitions of Words at Dictionary.com. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/septicemia>.

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