The Aleph

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. He grew up in the Palermo neighborhood, "in a garden, behind a fence with spears, and in a library of unlimited English books."
In 1914 he traveled with his family through Europe, eventually settling in Brussels, and later in Mallorca, Seville, and Madrid. Returning to Buenos Aires in 1921, Borges began to actively participate in Argentine cultural life.
In 1923, he published his first book — Fervor of Buenos Aires — but international recognition only came in 1961, with the Prize Formentor, followed by countless others. Alongside poetry, Borges wrote fiction (he is undoubtedly one of the greatest names in short stories or short narratives), criticism, and essays, genres he practiced with great originality and lucidity.
His work is like the labyrinth of a vast library, a fantastic and metaphysical construction that intersects all knowledge and the great universal themes: time, "I and the other," God, infinity, dreams, lost literatures, eternity—and the authors who leave their mark.
He was a professor of literature and directed the National Library of Buenos Aires between 1955 and 1973.
He died in Geneva in June 1986.