Jorge Luis Borges

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Borgesito.xyz features the author's most notable works, alongside various interactive features that enhance the overall reading experience.

His early works might seem baroque, as if he longs for an old world now out of reach. After many years he attains a secret and modest complexity. It is within his allegories and metaphors where we encounter a terrifying truth:

Our destiny … is not frightful by being unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and iron-clad. Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real;

I, unfortunately, am Borges.