Jorge Guillermo Borges
Jorge Guillermo Borges Haslam (24 February 1874 – 14 February 1938) was an
Background
In 1898, he married Leonor Acevedo Suárez with whom he had two children: writer Jorge Luis Borges and painter Norah Borges. Due to the failing eyesight that would eventually afflict his son, Borges eventually abandoned his law career and the family moved to Geneva, Switzerland before World War I, where the young Jorge Luis was treated by an eye specialist. In 1921, the Borges family returned to Argentina.[1]
Jorge Guillermo Borges studied law in Buenos Aires along with his lifelong friend Macedonio Fernández. He did not practice law and turned to literature instead, allegedly writing one novel: El Caudillo, published in Palma de Mallorca in 1921. Inserted in a typical criollista literary tendency of the time the novel generates ambiguous sensations that lead its reader to believe that — in what would later become pure magic realism — such a text could be the novel that Jorge Guillermo never wrote.[2][further explanation needed]
Borges had maternal ancestral roots in
References
- ^ "Don't abandon me". London Review of Books. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
- ^ "La novela de Borges". Página 12. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ Borges, Jorge Luis, "Autobiographical Notes", The New Yorker, 19 September 1970.
- ISBN 978-956-00-0107-8.
- ^ Stavans, Ilan (1986). Emma Zunz: The Jewish Theodicy of Jorge Luis Borges. Indiana, USA: Purdue University Press.