Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Jorge Luis Borges honored with a Google Doodle on his 112th Birthday
Today is Jorge Luis Borges's 112th Birthday and is being honored with a Google Doodle. He was an was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. It was at the age of 9 that Jorge Luis Borges translated 'The Happy Prince' by Oscar Wilde into Spanish. His most famous books, Ficciones and The Aleph, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes such as dreams, labyrinths, libraries, animals, fictional writers, religion and God. The Google Doodle shows him standing on top of a complex of buildings looking through complex imagery from which is carved out the Google logo. much like his stories and thoughts. Scholars also have suggested that Borges's progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. Knowing his background helps to understand the doodle better and it must be said that a lot of thought and understanding has gone into this Google Doodle. He never won the Nobel prize but he is remembered and now known but a lot more people thanks to the doodle.
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