Word: borgese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a standing joke among journalists that the world will do anything for Latin America except read about it. The general curiosity seems to end with fourth-grade geography and the fact that Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable body of water on earth. Yet this vast land mass...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Idea: a novel in which all of the characters have been struck mute. The only way they can communicate is through the pictures and symbols on a pack of tarot cards. That seems the borrowed inspiration of a green writer who has been rifling Borges or Nabokov-a novelist who...
The academies voted overwhelmingly to select Guillen, Marichal said. Even Argentina, the birthplace of Jorge Luis Borges, the other major candidate for the prize, voted for Guillen.
Since Bustos Domecq does not exist, Argentine Authors Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy-Casares had to invent him. Why? Because Domecq is the pure incarnation of the middleman between a world gone culturally haywire and the uncomprehending mass of mankind. His function: telling people why they should admire nonsense...