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"The Writing of the God" (original Spanish title: "La escritura del dios", sometimes translated as "The God's Script") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was published in Sur in February 1949, and later reprinted in the collection The Aleph. [1] [2]
Labyrinths (1962, 1964, 1970, 1983) is a collection of short stories and essays by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett.
Borges' fictitious writer Nils Runeberg presents to the world three versions of Judas Iscariot using his two books.. In the first version of Kristus och Judas, Runeberg says that it was Judas who was the reflection of Jesus in the human world, and as Jesus was our savior sent from heaven, Judas took up the onus of being the human who led Jesus down the path of redemption.
Colin Wilson published a novel titled The God of the Labyrinth (1970) in reference to Borges. In Karim Alwari's Book of Sands (2015) Tarek's pregnant wife reads April March by Herbert Quain. Portuguese musician Manuel Bogalheiro chose his stage name (Mr. Herbert Quain) because he liked the way the name sounded. [3]
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Dreamtigers (El Hacedor, "The Maker", 1960) is a collection of poems, short essays and literary sketches by the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. Divided fairly evenly between prose and verse, the collection examines the limitations of creativity. Borges regarded Dreamtigers as his most personal work.
The story follows Aurelian and John of Pannonia, who compete with one another as theologians. Though much of their work is a thinly veiled criticism of one another, the topic of their writing is regarding the heretical factions that appear around them such as the Monotoni, whose heresy is to preach that "history is a circle, and that all things have existed and will exist again", and the ...
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (/ ˈ b ɔːr h ɛ s / BOR-hess; [2] Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ⓘ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.