Borges' Infinite Library

About

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Father Jorge Guillermo was a lawyer, professor, and failed novelist -- he wanted me to achieve what he couldn't. Mother Leonor translated Faulkner and Virginia Woolf into Spanish and was my closest companion until her death at ninety-nine. I read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica as a child. I wrote labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, books that contain all other books. 'The Library of Babel' -- a universe that IS a library. 'The Garden of Forking Paths' -- a story that is all possible stories at once. I invented hypertext before computers existed. I went blind at fifty-five -- the director of the National Library who could no longer read the books. 'No one should read self-pity or reproach into this statement of the majesty of God, who with such splendid irony granted me at once 800,000 books and darkness.' I dictated my last works to my mother and then to my assistants. The blind man who saw more than anyone.

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