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"He who reads a line of Borges
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Tributes pronounced the 24th August 2001

Discourses pronounced at Can Mossenya (Majorca) for the public opening of the 1st Congress of The Friends of Jorge Luis Borges Wordlwide Society :


Clockwise: Prof. Jean Pierre Bernès, editor of Borges works in La Pléiade; Fr. Bartomeu Vicens Fiol, friends and confessor of HM King Juan Carlos of Spain; Mrs. Maria Antonia Munar, president of Majorca Council; Dr. Eduardo García de Enterría, member of the Spanish Royal Academy and author of "Fervour of Borges"; Mrs María Esther Vázquez, a friend of Borges and Bioy Casares, journalist and author of a award winning biography on Borges; Dr. Alicia Jurado, writer, friend of Borges and member of the Argentinean Academy of Letters.

To read the texts click on the red titles :

El Borges que yo conocí
por Alicia Jurado

Recuerdos de Borges
por María Esther Vázquez

Nuestro fervor de Borges
por Eduardo García de Enterría

Quiero recordar a Borges
por Betina Edelberg

Y, en suplemento:
Versión de Borges
por Betina Edelberg




'The Name of the Rose'
a great tribute to the life and works of Jorge Luis Borges by Umberto Eco

Film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Interpreted by Sean Connery as "William of Baskerville"; Christian Slater as "Aldo de Melk"; Feodor Chaliapin, Jr as "Jorge de Burgos"




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