Collaboration Peter Hill and J.J. Voss (Photographer)
S U P E R F I C T I O N S
Borges, Jorge Luis
Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986) Argentinian short story writer, essayist and poet. Educated in Buenos Aires and Geneva. Creator of mathematically tight short stories such as Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The Lottery in Babylon,
Funes the Memorious, and The Garden of Forking Paths. The 'skilful
anglicizing of his mother tongue' which The Times referred to in his obituary might be linked to his respect for the imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle see Sherlock Holmes.