In 1914, on the eve of World War I, Borges was taken by his family to Geneva, where he learned French and German and received his B.A. Under the constant stimulus and example of his father, the young Borges from his earliest years recognized that he was destined for a literary career. Wells, The Thousand and One Nights, and Don Quixote, all in English. The first books that he read-from the library of his father, a man of wide-ranging intellect who taught at an English school-included The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the novels of H.G. His family, which had been notable in Argentine history, included British ancestry, and he learned English before Spanish.
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.īorges was reared in the then-shabby Palermo district of Buenos Aires, the setting of some of his works.
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