Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine Writer: «You Have to Be Careful when Choosing Enemies, because You End up Looking Like Them»

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Borges was, before an illustrious writer and poet, a reader. He grew up among the books of the family library in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo, learned to read and write before the age of four and as an adult declared that this collection had been "the capital fact" of his entire life. We could say that everything he would write later had roots in those shelves in Buenos Aires. But undoubtedly, Borges was also a man of his time: convi…