Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man - 1/6

[cheetok1ng470]

can anyone tell me how this man "made the world a better place?" I looked everywhere but could only find some very brief mentions of him supporting the jews during ww2. Please help.

[Caligula138]

"When I think of what I've lost, I ask, 'Who know themselves better than the blind?' – for every thought becomes a tool."

[calabiyou]

wow, I didn't expect to find so much on borges on youtube, how naive of me

[Plegariadeunpagano]

Happy birthday Borges!!!

[alsaalsal]

congratulation GOOGLE TEAM for this great celebration today!!!!

[DollsandaLotMore]

i came here by the google doodle!

[Muhammed552]

he did many things he deserve nobal prize

[TheTollundWoman]

@Muhammed552

I agree, its a shame Borges' achievements in literature were overlooked.

[kino261988]

Google is a nice reference... it brought me here...

[BlondeBlue0]

@kino261988

Same.... :)



[Elpeorvideo]

I read him, and it's seems the world hides behind the next page

[andina18]

someone who gets the Cervantes prize… deserves the Nobel prize in Literature

[folladordeprostis]

Nolan said that his stories has influence in inception

[agukasem]

@folladordeprostis the story is "The Secret Miracle

[Mannazify]

@joeyeff and ImperialLady

I think it's actually more of a credit to him that he never received one; there are many questions over the recipients in modern times. I mean Barack H. Obama for a Peace Prize...are you serious? He's better off without one.

[Mannazify]

@joeyeff and ImperialLady

I think it's actually more of a credit to him that he never received one; there are many questions over the recipients in modern times. I mean Barack H. Obama...are you serious? He's better off without one.

[carsanookdotcom]

Muchas Gracias.

Es muy buena

Johnny de Bangkok

Thailandia

[MrShempenman]

Half of the Nobel Lit winners are now obscure and never read. Why do they never have a daring choice like Pynchon? That would put some interest back into a staid institution.

[ninjawombatfilmco]

Neither did Joyce or Pound or Twain or Tolstoy or Proust or Nabokov. None of them won because the committee is completely based on politics. They wouldn't even help Rushdie when he got exiled, fuking dicks.

[McLEPAG]

it´s wrong, Borge´s father wasn´t a lawyer, he was a psychology teacher

[carsanookdotcom]

"Happiness is somewhere in the pages between a book"

JLB

[Nilgunce]

Borges.... The magician of the worlds.

[MrMoe36]

he fucks with ur mind

[torosalvajebcn]

Such a pity his widow is a leech and destroys his legacy.

[thafons]

Nobel Prize is a joke, let's stop talking about it. If you're really good you don't win the Nobel.

[CheckinGagaiNagain]

@thafons

Agreed:)

[goPistons06]

the thing is, the nobel prize has been awarded to communists like Sartre and Neruda. not that i think these two men didn't derserve it, but talk about hypocrisy from the Nobel academy!

[Vektruscen]

I found the Library of Babel extremely interesting.

[GreenOrbs]

Reading that story makes me feel like I'm having a vague nightmare, not knowing exactly what I want or where I am. Might be my favorite Borges story.

[Harikrishnalove]

"When the end draws near, there no longer remain any remembered images; only words remain. It is not strange that time should have confused the words that once represented me with those that were symbols of the fate of he who accompanied me for so many centuries. I have been Homer; shortly, I shall be On One, like Ulysses; shortly, I shall be all men; I shall be dead." (from 'The Immortal')

[Harikrishnalove]

An image is the mirror, which reflects different identities. The idea for the short story 'Borges y yo' was came from the double looking at him - the alter ego, the other I. The well-known man, a name in some biographical dictionary, and the real person. "So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away - and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man." Influenced by George Berkeley (1685-1753),

[Harikrishnalove]

Opposite to Perón and later to the junta, his support to liberal causes were considered too ambiguous. "If he thinks like a dinosaur, that has nothing to do with my thinking," said once the Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda. "He doesn't understand a thing about what's happening in the modern world, and he thinks I don't either." Protests against the political repression and the "disappeared". Protest against Falkland Islands War - "Two bald men fighting over a comb" he said.

[Cronopioslover274]

This video-Bio of Borges is very unique. I love the photos, some of them I have never seen.

Thanx a lot!

[joeyeff]

That Borges was not given a Nobel Prize in Literature is a black stain on the award. When comes such another?

[purquiz]

Yes. Just look at the nobody who won it last time.

[ImperialLady]

I agree. Quite disappointingly, Borges never received the Nobel Prize due to purely political reasons.

[ambereyes93]

@ImperialLady

Ah, sadly politics do influence even poets' lives, even though I believe that art should have little and less to do with politics.

[comicfan88]

I agree with you!

Also Tolstoy was not given the prize nor Ghandi.

[gen6k]

obama got one, this world is upside down!

[bugpwdrdust]

@joeyeff well, he won the cervantes prize and miguel cervantes was a much better writer than alfred nobel

[diadorim1234]

@joeyeff Nabokov, Proust, Tostoi, Strindberg, Eco, Joyce, Kafka, Musil, also didnt get it, so Borges is in good company

[ashburnhouse]

@joeyeff I feel the same way about Auden.

[rolojoss]

@joeyeff Such black stain came with Obama

[GrendelDaze]

@joeyeff Conservatives don't get such prizes, but they don't need them either. Look at who gets them. Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize, etc, - it's a stain on your work to have one, I believe. 

[TheTollundWoman]

@GrendelDaze

Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky were both awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, both were adamant conservatives and spoke out very eloquently against the idiocies of the Far Left. Unfortunately the Nobel Peace Prize has largely been reduced to a joke, with the terrorist Yasser Arafat and appeasement advocates like Kim Dae Jung as its recipient.

[oGNaC]

great documentary, i am starting a collection of his short stories soon: Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings.

[risterion]

Suplico a quien me escuche que subtitule este documental. Infinitas gracias de antemano.

[scouseAfrican09]

Thanks. Borges is immaculate.

[Alexknobsob]

Thanks, he was too ill for me to see him.

[parlante123]

He is so wise.

I think his literature is a mixture between old and new and fantastic literature

[Federicoduarte]

Borgas no xD B-O-R-G-E-S

[monkies978]

Thank you! He is one of my favorites.