Borges: A Life in Poetry (1998)
• January 1st, 1998 • 1h 6min
Documentary
Overview
A peculiar portrait of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) drawn by the extravagant and original look of the Spanish writer Fernando Arrabal, who establishes a bold parallelism between Borges' work and opinions and his own creations, both literary and cinematographic.
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