It’s no secret that Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is one of the most outstanding authors in literature. His unique stories, which explore eternity, pain, time, and metafiction, have made him an obligatory reference in this field. Despite his introverted character, the blindness from which he suffered in his last decades, and his undeniable inoffensiveness, Borges spent the last years of his life being canceled for his staunch defense of individualism by an academic and literary world increasingly committed to collectivist causes. Unlike the authors of the Latin American boom, made up of the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, Argentine Julio Cortázar, Mexican Carlos Fuentes—who would later withdraw his support from Castroism—and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa—who did the same as Fuentes and became a great classical liberal—Borges never endorsed the Cuban revolution or expressed himself in favor of any movement that tried to enhance the figure of the collective over the individual. …
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