Like every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance, and asked that they measure him by what he conjectured or planned.

About Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ( BOR-hess, Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The...