Jorge (1899 – 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. His work embraces the “character of unreality in all literature”. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and The Aleph (El Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland, where he studied at the Collège de Genève.
BORGES ET GENEVE : ENTRE MYTHE ET REALITE
par Bertrand LEVY
http://www.unige.ch/ses/geo/collaborateurs/enseignants/levybertrand/BLevy_Borges.pdf
Jorge (1899 – 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. His work embraces the “character of unreality in all literature”. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and The Aleph (El Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland, where he studied at the Collège de Genève.