Jorge Luis Borges, his literature, audiobooks

My personal collection of Jorge Luis Borges texts, in audio format. Some of the texts are spoken by himself.

Personally I think it is great to hear his own voice, because it is only this way that I could feel his modest way of talking about many things.


BBC Borges and me (English)
Borges por el mismo (Spanish)
Labyrinths (English)
Selected fictions (English)
This craft of verse (Spanish)


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Here goes a bit of his literature, the poem Los Justos / The just



Los justos

Un hombre que cultiva su jardin, como quería Voltaire.
El que agradece que en la tierra haya música.
El que descubre con placer una etimología.
Dos empleados que en un café del Sur juegan un silencioso ajedrez.
El ceramista que premedita un color y una forma.
El tipógrafo que compone bien esta página, que tal vez no le agrada.
Una mujer y un hombre que leen los tercetos finales de cierto canto.
El que acaricia a un animal dormido.
El que justifica o quiere justificar un mal que le han hecho.
El que agradece que en la tierra haya Stevenson.
El que prefiere que los otros tengan razón.
Esas personas, que se ignoran, están salvando el mundo.

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The Just

A man who cultivates his garden, as Voltaire wished.
He who is grateful for the existence of music.
He who takes pleasure in tracing an etymology.
Two workmen playing, in a café in the South, a silent game of chess.
The potter, contemplating a color and a form.
The typographer who set this page well, though it may not please him.
A woman and a man, who read the last tercets of a certain canto.
He who strokes a sleeping animal.
He who justifies, or wishes to, a wrong done him.
He who is grateful for the existence of Stevenson.
He who prefers others to be right.
These people, unaware of each other, are saving the world.

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