Borges: The Librarian Who Went Blind
Jorge Luis Borges was appointed Director of Argentina's National Library in 1955, by which time he had become almost completely blind β surrounded by 800,000 books he could no longer read.
Is this true or false?
Explanation:
True. Borges reflected on this cruel irony in his 1960 poem 'Poem of the Gifts': 'God granted me at once 800,000 books and darkness.' He was the third blind director in the library's history.
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