BORGES, JORGE LUIS (1899–1986). Argentine writer whose stories, the most important of which were written in the 1930s and 1940s, had a profound influence on the development of postmodernist fiction. His beautifully wrought short stories established not only many of the aesthetic practices that became important in postmodernist writing, but also had a profound influence on both postmodern theory (Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean-François Lyotard)
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