JORGE LUIS BORGES, INQUIRIES
The Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges had already translated Oscar
Wilde from English into Spanish when he was ten. He lived in
Europe from age 15 to 21, learning German and French and
getting a bachelor’s degree. He returned to Buenos Aires in 1921
and began publishing, bringing out his first book of poems in 1923
and then a book of poetry and two collections of essays in 1925.
An article about him appeared in France, written by Valery
Larbaud, but otherwise, little was known of him outside Argentina
until the late 1930s.
Also, in 1925, Borges wrote an article about Joyce’s Ulysses in the
journal Proa and translated the last page.