This has led to analysis of his stories from a Freudian viewpoint, although Borges himself strongly disliked his work being interpreted in such a way.

* The Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges discusses The Rubaiyat and its history in an essay, " The Enigma of Edward FitzGerald " (" El Enigma de Edward FitzGerald ") in his book " Other Inquisitions " (" Otras Inquisiciones ", 1952 ).

Borges traces, in an essay entitled " Avatars of the Tortoise ", the many recurrences of this paradox in works of philosophy.

In a 1939 essay entitled " The Total Library ", Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges traced the infinite-monkey concept back to Aristotle's Metaphysics.

* Jorge Luis Borges ( 1899 – 1986 ), the Argentine writer, wrote an acclaimed essay on Qin Shi Huang, " The Wall and the Books " ("") in the 1952 collection Other Inquisitions ().

Caution eventually destroys or incapacitates it by telling it a riddle that involves something Alpha 60 can not comprehend: poetry ( although many of its lines are actually quotations from the Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges ; the opening line of the film, along with others, is an extract of Borges's essay " Forms of a Legend " and other references throughout the movie are made by Alpha 60 to Borges's " A New Refutation of Time ").

Jorge Luis Borges wrote a short essay, The Analytical Language of John Wilkins.

It appears, inter alia, as an illustration in Jorge Luis Borges ' famous essay " A New Refutation of Time ", and may have inspired H. P. Lovecraft's 1918 short story " Polaris ".

* Trompe l ' œil Tricks: Borges ' Baroque Illusionism, essay by Lois Parkinson Zamora comparing trompe-l ' œil to the literature of Borges

In this vein, Jorge Luis Borges suggests in his essay La duración del Infierno that no transgression can warrant an infinite punishment on the grounds that there is no such thing as an " infinite transgression ".

In this, Borges anticipates the post-modern theory that gives centrality to reader response ; his name appeared in Jaques Derrida's question and answer section that followed his delivery of his 1966 essay " Signature, Event, Context: A communication to the Congrès International des Sociétés de Philosophie de Langue Française.

In his autobiographical essay, Borges wrote about " The Approach to Al-Mu ' tasim ", " it now seems to me to foreshadow and even to set the pattern for those tales that were somehow awaiting me, and upon which my reputation as a storyteller was to be based.

" The Approach to Al-Mu ' tasim " was written in 1935 and was first published as an essay in a Borges ' 1936 philosophical essay collection, A History of Eternity ( Historia de la eternidad ).

In his autobiographical essay, Borges writes that when " The Approach to al-Mu ' tasim " was first published, the people who read it " took it at face value, and one of my friends even ordered a copy from London.

A quatrain from his poem To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence is quoted by Jorge Luis Borges in his essay, Note on Walt Whitman ( in the collection, Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 ):

" Jorge Luis Borges wrote that his book Historia universal de la infamia ( A Universal History of Infamy, 1936 ) was inspired by Schwob's " Imaginary Lives.

The Immortal deals with several themes which are present throughout much of Borges ' writing ; one such theme is immortality.

The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was entranced with the idea of the labyrinth, and used it extensively in his short stories ( such as " The House of Asterion " in The Aleph ).

Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats was the most significant literary experience of his life.

An example is Jorge Luis Borges, who won American fame with " The Garden of Forking Paths ", published in the August 1948 Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

* The Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges discusses Zeno ’ s paradoxes many times in his work, showing their relationship with infinity.

Nelson Goodman took the contrary position, illustrating his point along with Catherine Elgin by the example of Borges ' " Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote ",

In 1965 he released El Tango, an album for which he collaborated with the Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges.

Emir Rodríguez Monegal alleged that many of Derrida's ideas were recycled from the work of Borges ( from essays and tales such as " La fruición literaria " ( 1928 ), " Elementos de preceptiva " ( 1933 ), " Pierre Menard " ( 1939 ), " Tlön " ( 1940 ), " Kafka y sus precursores " ( 1951 )), opening his article with:

" Jorge Luis Borges inspired and encouraged other Latin American writers in the development of magical realism-particularly with his first magical realist publication, Historia universal de la infamia in 1935 .< ref > Flores, Angel.

* Interview with Jorge Luis Borges, 25 April 1980, discussing Browne

Peñarol made its debut in this tournament on April 19, against Club Jorge Wilstermann of Bolivia in a 7 – 1 thrashing, with the first goal of the match ( and the tournament ) coming courtesy of Luis Borges.

Also Jorge Luis Borges lived in the town with his parents and his sister Norah, after the First World War let them free from their refuge in Geneva.

Borges passionate friendship with the young artist Jacobo Sureda Montaner, son of the painter Pilar Montaner, was decisive for Borges writing mainly in Spanish.

The obolus, along with the mirror, was a symbol of new schismatic heretics in the short story " The Theologians " by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges ( Labyrinths, p. 122 ).

In 1999 the University of Geneva exhibited one of the vast tomes of Oedipus Aegyptiacus in an exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Jorge Luis Borges as representative of books associated with the Argentinian author.

Borges may have found a reference to it in any number of places, one of the most likely being accounts of the excavations, of the Kharijites, or of the Ibadhis – considered by Sunnis, but not by themselves, to be Kharijite – who live in what is today called the M ’ zab, in the Pentapolis ( five cities ), some of the minarets of which look somewhat like obelisks with flattened tops.

The worldly Borges ultimately proves no more able to live with the terrifying book than was the salesman.

Ricardo Rojas went way beyond Lugones, claiming the poem to deal, at least metaphorically, with almost every issue of Argentine history, even though, as Borges remarks, most of these aspects are notable in the poem mostly for their absence.

Eleuterio Tiscornia brought to the work a critical approach akin to European philology which seems, on the surface, incommensurate with the work in question ( see Borges and Ezequiel Martínez Estrada's short-sighted attack on Tiscornia ).

Because Martín Fierro has been widely considered ( beginning with Leopoldo Lugones's El Payador, 1916 ) 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 " ( written with Margarita Guerrero )-gives insight into Borges's identity as an Argentine.

Borges emphasizes that " gauchesque " poetry was not poetry written by gauchos, but generally by educated urban writers who adopted the eight-syllable line of the rural payadas ( ballads ), but often filled them with folksy expressions and with accounts of daily life that had no place in the " serious and even solemn " payadas.

* The short story " There Are More Things " by Jorge Luis Borges from The Book of Sand refers to an amphisbaena and concerns a similar, though mostly undescribed, monster.

* Jorge Luis Borges, who suffered from a congenital condition that caused him to become blind by middle age, discussed his condition in many autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works.

* Ron Borges is a sports columnist and former long-time columnist for The Boston Globe.

Jorge Luis Borges wrote a contemporary bestiary of sorts, the Book of Imaginary Beings, which collects imaginary beasts from bestiaries and fiction.

Jorge Luis Borges was another admirer.

* First Encyclopaedia of Tlön appears in the short story " Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius " by Jorge Luis Borges.

Several other fictional books were invented by the same author, including an entire bibliography for the fictional author Pierre Menard, as well as an imaginary novel, purportedly written by a Bombay lawyer named Mir Bahadur Ali, entitled " The Approach to Al-Mu ' tasim ," which was " reviewed " by Borges in his story of the same name.

In 1941, Jorge Luis Borges created The Garden of Forking Paths, a branching style short story that is often considered an inspiration for the concept of hypertext.

Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote his short story " There Are More Things " in memory of Lovecraft.

" Thus irreal works such as Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics and Jorge Luis Borges ' Ficciones can be seen as an attempt to find a new allegorical language to explain our changed perceptions of the world that have been brought about by our scientific and technical culture, especially concepts such as quantum physics or the theory of relativity.

* Jorge Luis Borges, " The Creation and P. H. Gosse ," in Other Inquisitions ( trans.

Borges ' father Jorge Guillermo Borges was the author of a translation to Spanish of the FitzGerald version of The Rubaiyat.

The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternate histories ( which may have no particular scientific or futuristic component ), and even literary stories that contain fantastic elements, such as the work of Jorge Luis Borges or John Barth.

The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is the most famous writer of short stories in the Spanish language.

Borges also used Zeno ’ s paradoxes as a metaphor for some situations described by Kafka.

** Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer ( b. 1899 )

" Variations on this theme were subsequently explored by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges in his story / mock-essay Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.