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The 20 pages that link to Jorge Luis Borges, each with the reason it gives.

• ArgentinaRelated: His work made Argentine literature a major presence in world letters.

• Short storyRelated: His compact narratives turn speculative premises into intricate literary structures.

• Latin American literatureBroader topic: His metafiction and philosophical puzzles influenced writers well beyond Argentina.

• LabyrinthRelated: His stories turned the labyrinth into a model of thought and narrative.

• Argentine literatureBroader topic: His work gave Argentine letters an enduring international presence.

• Argentine national identityRelated: His work repeatedly examines how Argentina relates to local and universal cultural inheritances.

• Italo CalvinoRelated: Borges’s formal play offers a revealing parallel to Calvino’s later experimental fiction.

• Leopoldo LugonesRelated: Borges admired Lugones’s writing and later delivered the eulogy at his funeral.

• Cervantes PrizeBroader topic: His 1979 award established an early precedent for recognizing Latin American writers.

• Julio CortázarRelated: Borges’s fantastic fiction formed a major local precedent for Cortázar.

• The AlephNarrower topic: Borges wrote “The Aleph” and appears within it as a fictionalized narrator.

• Umberto EcoRelated: Borges’s literary labyrinths resonate with Eco’s mysteries and encyclopedic fiction.

• Alejo CarpentierRelated: Borges represents a contrasting strand of Latin American literary modernism, more metaphysical than Carpentier’s historical fiction.

• Emanuel SwedenborgRelated: Borges repeatedly discussed Swedenborg’s visions and imagined geography of the afterlife.

• Ernesto SábatoRelated: Borges and Sábato publicly discussed Argentine literature and its cultural direction.

• FiccionesNarrower topic: He wrote and arranged the stories that define the collection.

• Juan RulfoRelated: Borges’s praise helped establish Pedro Páramo as a major work beyond Mexico.

• ArgentinaRelated: His work made Argentine literature influential around the world.

• Ricardo GüiraldesRelated: Borges admired Don Segundo Sombra and helped place it within Argentina’s literary canon.

• Ultraist movementRelated: Borges encountered Ultraism in Spain and helped transmit it to Argentina.