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jorge luis borges library

Our library is a space open to the public and a resource center for information about Spain and the Spanish-speaking world

The library at the Instituto Cervantes in New York is dedicated to the writer Jorge Luis Borges, winner of the 1979 Cervantes Prize, an Argentine short-story writer, poet, essayist, and translator who is widely regarded as a key figure in both Spanish-language literature and world literature​​​​​​​.

[Materials and Collections]

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Materials and Collections

Located in downtown Manhattan, the Jorge Luis Borges Library houses a collection of approximately 85,000 items, with thousands more available online.

The collections cover a wide range of topics related to Spain and Latin America in a variety of formats: books, magazines, DVDs, CDs, audiobooks, electronic resources, and more.


The modern facilities are open to the public and offer a comfortable reading area, as well as spaces for study and research.


The online catalog allows you to search the digital and physical collections, as well as manage loans and renewals.


The Electronic Library provides access to books, newspapers, magazines, and audio content.

You can watch movies and documentaries through the Digitalia Film Library.

[Contact Information and Hours]

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211 East 49th Street​​​​​​​Between 2nd and 3rd Avenues​​​​​​​New York, NY 10017
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[Jorge Luis Borges]

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Jorge Luis Borges

“Of all the tools man has created, the most amazing is, without a doubt, the book. The others are extensions of his body. The microscope and the telescope are extensions of his sight; the telephone is an extension of his voice; then there are the plow and the sword, extensions of his arm. But the book is something else entirely: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.”

Jorge Luis BORGES. El Libro. En: Borges, oral. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1996, p. 165.

[Biography]

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Biography

Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo (Buenos Aires, August 24, 1899 – Geneva, Switzerland, June 14, 1986). Argentine poet, essayist, and writer.

He studied in Geneva and England. He lived in Spain from 1919 until his return to Argentina in 1921. He contributed to French and Spanish literary magazines, where he published essays and manifestos.​​​​​​​

During the 1930s, his fame grew in Argentina, and he published several works in collaboration with Bioy Casares, most notably Anthology of Fantastic Literature. During these years, his literary activities expanded to include literary criticism and the translation of authors such as Virginia Woolf, Henri Michaux, and William Faulkner.

Upon his return to Argentina, he joined Macedonio Fernández in founding the magazines Prisma and Prosa and signed the first Ultraist manifesto. In 1923, he published his first book of poems, Fervor de Buenos Aires, and in 1935, Historia universal de la infamia, a collection of short stories (a format he would use in later publications).

He worked as a librarian in Buenos Aires from 1937 to 1945, served as a lecturer and professor of English literature at the University of Buenos Aires, was president of the Argentine Society of Writers, a member of the Argentine Academy of Letters, and director of the National Library of Argentina from 1955 to 1974. In 1961, he shared the Formentor Prize with Samuel Beckett, awarded by the International Congress of Publishers. Beginning in 1964, he published works in both verse and prose.

Borges employs a unique literary style, based on the interpretation of concepts such as time, space, destiny, and reality. The symbolism he uses draws on the authors who most influenced him—William Shakespeare, Thomas De Quincey, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad—as well as the Bible, Jewish Kabbalah, early European literature, classical literature, and philosophy.

He published poetry collections such as The Other, the Same, In Praise of the Shadow, The Gold of the Tigers, The Deep Rose, and The Iron Coin, and wrote prose works such as The Brodie Report and The Book of Sand. During these years, Borges also published books that blended prose and verse, works that combined theater, poetry, and short stories; examples of this fusion include titles such as The Cipher and The Conspirators.

The significance of his work was recognized with the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1979.

[Chronology of His Works]

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Chronology of His Works

Stories

1935.- Historia universal de la infamia 
1942.- El jardín de los senderos que se bifurcan
1944.- Ficciones
1949.- El Aleph
1970.- El informe de Brodie
1975.- El libro de arena
1983.- Veinticinco agosto 1983 y otros cuentos
1986.- La rosa de Paracelso. Tigres azules.

Poetry
1923.- Fervor de Buenos Aires
1925.- Luna de enfrente
1929.- Cuaderno San Martín
1943.- Poemas (1922-1943)
1954.- Poemas 1923-1953
1955.- Nueve poemas
1958.- Límites
1960.- El hacedor
1964.- Obra poética 1923-1964
1967.- Para las seis cuerdas
1969.- El otro, el mismo
1969.- Elogio de la sombra
1972.- El oro de los tigres
1975.- La rosa profunda
1976.- Obra poética
1976.- Cosmogonías
1976.- La moneda de hierro
1977.- Historia de la noche
1981.- Antología poética 1923-1977
1981.- La cifra
1983.- Milongas
1985.- Los conjurados

Essays

1925.- Inquisiciones
1926.- El tamaño de mi esperanza
1928.- El idioma de los argentinos
1929.- Textos recobrados
1930.- Evaristo Carriego
1932.- Discusión
1933.- Las Kenningar
1936.- Historia de la eternidad
1947.- Nueva refutación del tiempo
1950.- Aspectos de la literatura gauchesca
1951.- Antiguas literaturas germánicas
1952.- Otras inquisiciones
1960.- Obras completas
1961.- Antología personal
1963.- El lenguaje de Buenos Aires
1968.- El libro de los seres imaginarios
1968.- Nueva antología personal
1974.- Obras completas
1971.- El congreso
1974.- Prólogos con un prólogo de prólogos
1976.- Libro de sueños
1980.- Borges, oral
1980.- Siete noches
1982.- Nueve ensayos dantescos
1985.- Cuentistas y pintores argentinos
1986.- Textos cautivos
1988.- Biblioteca personal
1993.- Borges en la escuela freudiana de Buenos Aires

Collaborative Works

1936.- Seis problemas para Don Isidro Parodi. Con Adolfo Bioy Casares
1945.- El compadrito, su destino, sus barrios, su música. Con Silvina Bullrich Palenque
1946.- Dos fantasías memorables. Con Adolfo Bioy Casares, como Bustos Domecq
1946.- Un modelo para la muerte. Con Adolfo Bioy Casares, as B. Suárez Lynch
1953.- El «Martín Fierro».  Con Margarita Guerrero
1955.- La hermana de Eloísa. Con Luisa Mercedes Levinson
1955.- Los orilleros; El paraíso de los creyentes. Con Adolfo Bioy Casares
1955.- Leopoldo Lugones. Con Betina Edelberg
1957.- Manual de zoología fantástica. Con Margarita Guerrero.
1965.- Introducción a la literatura inglesa. Con María Esther Vázquez
1965.- Literaturas germánicas medievales. With María Esther Vázquez
1967.- Introducción a la literatura norteamericana. Con Esther Zemborain de Torres
1967.- Crónicas de Bustos Domecq. Con Adolfo Bioy Casares
1976.- Diálogos. Con Ernesto Sábato
1976.- Qué es el budismo. Con Alicia Jurado
1977.- Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq. Con Adolfo Bioy Casares
1984.- Atlas. With María Kodama

Borges in Our Library

All of the Instituto Cervantes' libraries are named after a writer or artist. In the case of New York, we are honored that ours is named after the great Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. These are the works you can find in our catalog.
[Borges in Our Library]

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