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Topic: Authors: JORGE LUIS BORGES

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Jorge Luis Borges 1951, by Grete Stern, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Dates: 1899-1986

Nationality: Argentine

Aka: 

  • F. Bustos, Francisco Bustos,
  • B. Suarez Lynch, B. Lynch Davis,
  • H Bustos Domecq, Honorio Bustos Domecq

Literary Periods: 

  • Inter-War Period, 1918-1939
  • Modernist Period, 1899-1945
  • Postwar Period, 1945-1999
  • Twentieth Century, 1900-1999

Literary Movements: 

  • Magic Realism
  • 20th Century

Header Image

Jorge in Wonderland by Guglielmo from Milano, Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

REFERENCE & BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Scribner Writers Series
Essay on the life and works of Jorge Luis Borges, complete works and suggested reading bibliographies  

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RESEARCH & CRITICISM

Find books, essays and journal articles in MLA International Bibliography

MLA International Bibliography is the definitive literary research database, indexing the most authoritative scholarship on Jorge Luis Borges from books and academic journals. MLA indexes and links to the entire JSTOR literary research collection as well as linking to many other full-text providers.
 

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PRIMARY SOURCES

Although some papers are collected at the Fundación San Telmo, Buenos Aires,
many of Borges's manuscripts have not survived.

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