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Biography of Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentine writer, not only embraced but also transformed his difficult fate into creative material.

The accumulation of cultural images and symbols is a consequence of this transformation, with the reason lying in his feeling of being the last descendant of his lineage, a dead-end branch that will never escape.

Born on August 24, 1899, in Buenos Aires, in a family of lawyer Jorge Guillermo Borges (1874-1938) and Leonor Acevedo de Borges (1876-1975), who lived on Tucuman Street, between Suipacha and Esmeralda, in a house that belonged to Leonor's parents, a child named Jorge Luis was born.

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He spent most of his childhood in a domestic environment. His father published one novel and wrote three more books before destroying them. His father, who was an agnostic philosopher, was also connected by his maternal line to the Hazlitt family