Jorge Luis Borges
"The face of Borges most widely known is that of the blind, patrician man of letters in whose writings emotion is subjected to the play of ideas. Yet Borges, born in Buenos Aires in 1899, did not become virtually blind until the 1950s, and in the decades before this affliction and before his books were widely translated and internationally celebrated, he wrote, loved and engage in local polemics with adventurous passion."
Biography
173 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 20 cm.
9781861892867, 1861892861
65768057
Buenos Aires to Palermo
Geneva and Spain
Buenos Aires, the avant-garde and literary friendships
The 1930s, crisis and incident
The 1940s, war, Peronism and writing
From blindness to Geneva