![]() ![]() ![]() Of all these relationships, however, his partnership with Adolfo Bioy Casares was the most fruitful, and deserves its own section in “Borges Works.”Īdolfo Bioy Casares was born in 1914 in Buenos Aires, the only child of Adolfo Bioy Domecq and Marta Ignacia Casares Lynch, upper-class Argentines with French and Irish ancestry. Borges’ penultimate work was a travelogue written with his future wife, María Kodama. Borges frequently struck up friendships with his translators, and his work with Norman Thomas di Giovanni is considered definitive by many English readers. He began his career by translating Oscar Wilde, helped his father write a historical novel named El Caudillo, and worked closely with his sister Norah Borges to illustrate his early poems. ![]() Jorge Luis Borges on Adolfo Bioy Casares Borges Works: Collaborations with Adolfo Bioy Casaresīorges enjoyed collaborating with other writers, translators, and artists. This may have been true at the outset, but several years later, when we began to work together, Bioy was really and secretly the master. It is always taken for granted in these cases that the older man is the master and the younger his disciple. Met in 1930 or 1931, when he was seventeen and I was just past thirty. ![]()
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