Argentine Author Prices for his Rare Books
Posted by Richard Gabriel on Tue, May 04, 2010 @ 01:18 PM
We were struck by the prices of rare signed first edition books of the author Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (wow what a mouthful). Jorge's rare books on Advanced Book Exchange vary in price and quality from the low hundreds of dollars to tens of thousands of dollars. Just to demonstrate the flexible antiquarian book market, we put these direct links for you to look at these books and listings. But first a little bit about our esteemed author taken from Wikipedia, an invaluable resource for all us book hounds, bark, bark...
Although we don't have any of this author's works, we have many others and you can visit us by clicking his esteemed picture, doesn't he look like someone you know???
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986), best known as Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish pronunciation: ['xorxe 'lwis 'borxes], try that after a few rum and cokes...), was an Argentine writer, essayist, and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955 he was appointed director of the National Public Library (Biblioteca Nacional) and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1961 he came to international attention when he received the first International Publishers' Prize, the Prix Formentor. His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages. He died in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1986.
His work embraces the "chaos that rules the world and the character of unreality in all literature." His most famous books, Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949), are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes: dreams, labyrinths, libraries, fictional writers and works, religion, God. His works have contributed significantly to the genre of magical realism. Scholars have noted that Borges's progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination since "poets, like the blind, can see in the dark". The poems of his late period dialogue with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Luís de Camões, and Virgil.
His international fame was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by the "Latin American Boom" and the success of Gabriel García Márquez's Cien Años de Soledad. Writer and essayist J. M. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish American novelists."
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