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Jul 18, 2023 · The Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges lost his vision—what he called his “reader’s and writer’s sight”—around the same time that he became the director of the National Library of Argentina. This put him in charge of nearly a million books, he observed, at the very moment he could no longer read them. Borges, who went blind after ...
Aug 24, 2018 · August 24, 2018. Jorge Luis Borges always knew he was going to go blind. It was in his family: his father, his paternal grandmother, and his great-grandfather had gone blind before him and had died, he wrote in his 1977 lecture on the subject, “blind, laughing, and brave, as I also hope to die.”. His case, he wrote, was not “especially ...
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), one of the great writers to come out of Argentina, went blind when he was only 55 years old. As unsettling as it must have been, it wasn’t particularly a surprise. He once told The New York Times, “I knew I would go blind, because my father, my paternal grandmother, my great-grandfa ...
For the Cape Verdean politician, see Jorge Borges (politician). In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Borges and the second or maternal family name is Acevedo. Jorge Luis Borges. Borges in 1951. Born. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo () 24 August 1899 Buenos Aires, Argentina. Died. 14 June 1986 (1986-06-14) (aged 86 ...
Oct 28, 2013 · In October 1982, 83-year-old Jorge Luis Borges, who at that point had been blind for nearly 30 years, gathered sixty of his closest friends and admirers at a special dinner in New York. Susan Sontag was there.
Apr 15, 2014 · Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer who heavily utilized philosophical themes in his writing. Borges went blind in 1955, in his mid 50’s. According to Open Culture, Borges would never learn to read braille but continued to write and even draw. This drawing was done in the basement of NYC’s famous Strand Bookstore.
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Aug 8, 2022 · Jorge Luis Borges, 1967. Portrait by Annemarie Heinrich. Via Wikimedia. Public domain. Some of the most beautiful poetry of the twentieth century comes from Argentina, where Jorge Isidoro Francisco Luis Borges Acevedo was born on August 23, 1899. He was the son of Jorge Guillermo Borges—who also suffered of blindness—and of Leonor Acevedo.
