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Seventeen years after his death and nearly 35 years after his brief tenure at Harvard, writer Jorge Luis Borges is returning to campus.
“Borges: The Time Machine,” a new exhibit in Houghton Library, examines the life of the controversial and award-winning poet and author, with manuscripts and personal belongings collected by the library over the last three decades.
A second exhibit, “Jorge Borges at Houghton Library,” includes a selection of materials related to Borges’s tenure as Norton Professor of Poetry in the late 1960s. The exhibits display only a fraction of the writer’s work and personal...
Although never a Nobel Laureate—which some say is a result of Borges’ politics—the writer shared the first Prix Formentor with Irish poet Samuel Beckett in 1961. The award, given to writers judged to have made a lasting contribution to world literature, led...
In fact, it was a Harvard alum, John H. Updike ’54, who helped popularize Borges in the United States. In an admiring 1965 New Yorker article, a draft of which is on display at Houghton, Updike argued that Borges could furnish “a clue to...