ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Jorge Luis Borges, (born August 24, 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina-died June 14, 1986, Geneva, Switzerland), Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose works became classics of 20th-century world literature.

Detailed explanation-2: -Poet, essayist, narrator, translator, and one of the most important figures in Argentinian literature. Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most important figures in Argentinian literature and Spanish narrative in general. Borges is also one of the most analyzed authors in the history of literature.

Detailed explanation-3: -Upon Borges’s return to Argentina in 1921, he introduced the tenets of the movement-a belief, for example, in the supremacy of the metaphor-to the Argentine literary scene. His first collection of poems, Fervor de Buenos Aires, was written under the spell of this new poetic movement.

Detailed explanation-4: -Head north up Maipú towards Plaza San Martín, until you come to Maipú 944. In 1944, Borges moved to apartment 6B of this building, and it remained his city residence for decades.