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"El Golem" is a poem by Jorge Luis Borges, part of the 1964 book El otro, el mismo (The other, the self). The poem tells the story of Judah Loew (Judá León) and his giving birth to the Golem. In that poem, Borges quotes the works of German Jewish philosopher Gershom Scholem.
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A golem is an animated anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore which is entirely created from inanimate matter. In the Psalms and medieval writings, the word golem was used as a term for an amorphous, unformed material.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, philosophers, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have been considered by some critics to mark the beginning of the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature. His late poems converse with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil.
Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges, and is the author of the fantastic fiction novel The Invention of Morel.
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
Martín Fierro, also known as El Gaucho Martín Fierro, is a 2,316-line epic poem by the Argentine writer José Hernández. The poem was originally published in two parts, El Gaucho Martín Fierro (1872) and La Vuelta de Martín Fierro (1879). The poem supplied a historical link to the gauchos' contribution to the national development of Argentina, for the gaucho had played a major role in Argentina's independence from Spain.
José Hernández was an Argentine journalist, poet, and politician best known as the author of the epic poem Martín Fierro.
Borges on Martín Fierro concerns Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges's comments on José Hernández's nineteenth century poem Martín Fierro. Like most of his compatriots, Borges was a great admirer of this work, which he often characterized as the one clearly great work in Argentine literature. Because Martín Fierro has been widely considered the fountainhead or pinnacle of Argentine literature, Argentina's Don Quixote or Divine Comedy, and because Borges was certainly Argentina's greatest twentieth-century writer, Borges's 1953 book of essays about the poem and its critical and popular reception - El "Martín Fierro" - gives insight into Borges's identity as an Argentine.
Leonor Fanny "Norah" Borges Acevedo, was a visual artist and art critic, member of the Florida group, and sister of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
This is a bibliography of works by Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet, and translator Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986).
"The Aleph" is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. First published in September 1945, it was reprinted in the short story collection, The Aleph and Other Stories, in 1949, and revised by the author in 1974.
A golem is an artificial animated being in medieval and Jewish folklore.
Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and the indigenous languages of the Americas. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the international success of the style known as magical realism. As such, the region's literature is often associated solely with this style, with the 20th century literary movement known as Latin American Boom, and with its most famous exponent, Gabriel García Márquez. Latin American literature has a rich and complex tradition of literary production that dates back many centuries.
Severo Sarduy was a Cuban poet, author, playwright, and critic of Cuban literature and art. Some of his works deal explicitly with male homosexuality and transvestism.
Chess became a source of inspiration in the arts in literature soon after the spread of the game to the Arab World and Europe in the Middle Ages. The earliest works of art centered on the game are miniatures in medieval manuscripts, as well as poems, which were often created with the purpose of describing the rules. After chess gained popularity in the 15th and 16th centuries, many works of art related to the game were created. One of the best-known, Marco Girolamo Vida's poem Scacchia ludus, written in 1527, made such an impression on the readers that it singlehandedly inspired other authors to create poems about chess.
Dreamtigers, 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. In the view of Mortimer Adler, editor of the Great Books of the Western World series, the collection was a masterpiece of 20th century literature. Literary critic Harold Bloom includes it in his Western Canon.
"The Other" is a 1972 short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), collected in the anthology The Book of Sand.
"Borges and I" is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is one of the stories in the short story collection, The Maker, first published in 1960. The story "Borges and I" is about how Borges does not see himself as a writer. It shows the difference between persona and self. Borges persona is that he is the writer of multiple stories, but he hardly sees himself in the story. He is well known for his famous works in literature, but that is not who he is. He claims in the story that Borges wrote those stories, not him. He credits Borges for putting in the work to write the short story. He tries to fight these claims but he always loses to Borges. Everything he tries to do apart from Borges ends up being tied to Borges.
Edgar Brau is an Argentine writer, stage director and artist.
Jorge Guillermo Borges was an Argentine lawyer, teacher, writer, philosopher and translator. He was also an anarchist and a follower of Herbert Spencer philosophy. He's also a notable figure for being Jorge Luis Borges’s father.