Jorge Luis Borges

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) went from a childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a wildly successful literary career, as his poems, short stories, and essays stunned the world with their inventiveness, intellectual seriousness, and flights of imagination. He was more than a writer, and maybe more even than an icon: he was what we might call a human literary genre, the creator of a type of literature that he alone practiced and perfected. In this episode, Jacke and Mike celebrate the works of Borges and take a look at the writers he influenced. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. Music Credits: “Tango de Manzana” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Jack Wilson.
0:11.0	Welcome to The History of literature. Oh boy. Hello everyone here we go another episode of the history of literature oh boy this is a long
0:36.2	awaited often requested one hoor hey louis borhes that Argentinian master if you're selecting authors to define the
0:45.3	20th century in world literature, I think he's very high on your list. Who else?
0:50.7	Maybe Joyce, Proust, and Kafka.
0:54.0	But in the second half of the century...
0:57.0	Wow, I'm not sure who's up there with Borhese.
1:00.0	Marquez, I suppose. Can't forget Gabo. Rushdie, maybe. America nominates Tony Morrison and
1:07.5	Saul Bellow. But real international literature, world literature, books that sweep across the planet and mean something.
1:16.0	Borhase is right up there,
1:18.0	and maybe stands apart.
1:20.0	By sweep across the planet,
1:22.0	I'm talking about academies, book critics, philosophers, deep lovers of fiction.
1:30.0	I'm not sure he ever sold as many copies as a Marquez.
1:34.0	Maybe that didn't matter.
1:37.0	There was such a thing as a writer's writer.
1:41.0	Borjes is more like a writer's writer's writer, maybe a writer's writer's writer's
1:46.0	writer. He's also an intense reader, which is why we love him here at the history of literature.
1:52.4	He was a librarian.
1:54.5	He went blind.
1:56.4	There are a handful of things we associate with him,
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