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...With the prospect of two bald men fighting over a comb (to steal from Jorge Luis Borges) this year in the US, I suggest the sneering Anglosphere could learn a lot from a small but plucky Central American...
...(Later he would develop a strong and enduring affinity for the work of mid-20th-century luminaries such as Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov.)...
...My colleagues’ excellent report on this Sunday’s Polish election reminded me of Jorge Luis Borges comparing the Falklands war to “a fight between two bald men over a comb”....
...Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges said that reality was not always what might seem probable or likely....
...Or, for a more philosophical take on much the same idea, Oliver Burkeman builds on a line from the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges: “Time is the substance I am made of....
...Zamora, who spends his days reading through a pile of books from novels by Jorge Luis Borges to a Winston Churchill biography, said he thought Guatemala and neighbouring authoritarian Nicaragua were like...
...Yet here we are again: two bald men fighting over a comb, as Jorge Luis Borges depicted the British-Argentine war over the Falklands. America is no comb and Trump has plenty of hair....
...In the 30-minute film, a fashion model (Aida Wellgaye) smokes cigarettes and interviews author Jorge Luis Borges (Emilio Linder) about poetry, the ecological crisis and the legacy of colonialism in Tierra...
...I first dipped into my grandmother’s vast collection of Mills & Boons as a teenager in late 1980s India; in between Margaret Atwood, Clarice Lispector and Jorge Luis Borges, I was soon devouring romance...
...Ficciones was inspired by the stories of Jorge Luis Borges and, like those, the music was a combination of dazzling and mysterious, with excellent playing from the orchestra....
...Later, I discovered that the list of writers who were not awarded the Nobel, from Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge Luis Borges to Octavia Butler or Annie Proulx, was as distinguished as the list of winners....
...Along with peers such as Samanta Schweblin, Enríquez continues in the tradition of literary forebears including Jorge Luis Borges, Horacio Quiroga, Julio Cortázar and Silvina Ocampo....
...In this way, she has a rightful place in the tradition of surrealist, nihilistic writers such as Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo and Samanta Schweblin....
...Indeed, Jorge Luis Borges thought that northern Uruguay was an even more authentic custodian of the gaucho tradition; he was suitably startled and impressed when he visited the Uruguayan border with Brazil...
...In his story “The Immortal”, Jorge Luis Borges suggested that life gets its meaning from death as with infinite time, there is no motivation....
...It’s fitting that the magical tales of Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones appear alongside The Moth Presents: All These Wonders, a compendium of tales first spoken aloud under the aegis of the storytelling phenomenon...
...The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges A very short story which has surely become the most quoted and referred to text on the nature of libraries....
...Literary voices are well represented in Las Palabras, with rows of album covers mounted along the walls from Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez reading their work....
...The writer, Jorge Luis Borges, once likened the UK-Argentina war over the Falkland Islands to two bald men fighting over a comb. It would also serve as an apt forecast of a Bloomberg-Sanders showdown....
...Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Somerset Maugham and Italo Calvino, all capable of spinning a lengthy narrative, were nonetheless attracted by the lure of portraying a whole world within the space of...
...It was a vision of the library as a representation of the world itself — an idea that Jorge Luis Borges would later explore in his short story “The Library of Babel”....
...Over the course of its brief existence Amauta would feature or review the work of talents from Latin America and beyond including Jorge Luis Borges and his artist sister Norah, Sigmund Freud, José Ortega...
...Earlier this year, Wylie sold Chinese-language publishing rights to the works of Argentine novelist Jorge Luis Borges, on behalf of his estate, for a seven-figure sum — 10 times the amount they fetched when...
...Apostol uses techniques from Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, expecting the reader to trust her as the story hopscotches through time and space....
...“It is easy for the opposition to speak vaguely about its demands for Maduro to leave power,” said Luis Vicente León, head of Venezuelan pollster Datanálisis....
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