“Of course, like all young men, I tried to be as unhappy as I could — a kind of Hamlet and Raskolnikov rolled into one.”

—  Jorge Luis Borges

Autobiographical Notes (1970)

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Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986

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