Blindness by jorge luis borges biography book

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The Self-Portrait Jorge Luis Borges Drew After Going Blind

Jorge Luis Borges always knew he was going to go blind. It was in his family: his father, his paternal grandmother, and his great-grandfather had gone blind before him and had died, he wrote in his lecture on the subject, &#;blind, laughing, and brave, as I also hope to die.&#; His case, he wrote, was not &#;especially dramatic.

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What is dramatic are those who suddenly lose their sight. In my case, that slow nightfall, that slow loss of sight, began when I began to see. It has continued since [the year of his birth] without dramatic moments, a slow nightfall that has lasted more than three quarters of a century. In , the pathetic moment came when I knew I had lost my sight, my reader&#;s and writer&#;s sight.

Borges called his own blindness &#;modest, because it is total blindness in one eye, but only partial in the other.&#; He could still see blue, green, and yellow, but not red or black. Yes, black. Shakespeare was wrong, Borges explained, when he wrote &#;Looking on darkness which the blind do see.&#;

One of the colors that the blind—or at least this blind man—do not see is black; another is red. Le rouge et le noir are the colors denied us. I, who was accustom

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Autobiografía

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As befits the master of short form Borges wrote his Autobiography truly minimally. And although it sounds impossible he summarized his life on just 80 some pages. To tell the truth, Borges only said what he wanted to tell us, not all his life. From first chapters we get to know about his ancestors, father’s library, first readings, learning languages, plague of blindness in family, stay in Europe. About private life we get to know next to nothing. Just some passages devoted to his father who got him interested in poetry, tender reminiscences about mother who accompanied him almost whole life, one or two sentence about sister, wife is mentioned on penultimate page. And that’s it about family.

Quite a lot time Borges dedicates friends and first writing attempts. About his first book claims that it was too much of everything in it, absolute mishmash, but in some way that was the book he was rewriting over and over again throughout his life. With some words depictures a few years’ period of working as minor librarian and his nomination for post of director of National Library being blind recognizes as the irony of fate Those two gifts contradicted each other: the countless books and the night, the inability to read them.

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