Jorge Luis Borges

fantasy-lit author

http://www.borgesian.com/

Like his contemporary Vladimir Nabokov and the somewhat older James Joyce, he combined an interest in his native land with far broader interests. He also shared their multilingualism and their playfulness with language, but while Nabokov and Joyce tended, as their lives went on, toward progressively larger works, Borges remained a miniaturist. Also in contrast to Joyce and Nabokov, Borges's work progressed away from what he referred to as "the baroque," while theirs moved towards it: Borges's later writing style is far more transparent and naturalistic than his early style. Many of his most popular stories concern the nature of time, infinity, mirrors, labyrinths, reality and identity. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges

http://www.themodernword.com/borges/

http://www.hum.au.dk/Institut/rom/borges/english.htm

http://www.spydersempire.com/empirezine/features/sept/borges.htm