Key Points

• He wrote short stories interconnecting different themes

• His first poems and essays had a surrealist style

• He's writings fall mostly under the category of philosophical literature and fantasy

• Many of his stories deal with themes of time in its various aspects

• Critics consider his style the beginning of the Latin-American "magic realism"

• His later poems contain references to a diversity of cultural figures

Relevant Works

• El Aleph

• El informe de Brodie

• El libro de arena

• La memoria de Shakespeare

• Nueve ensayos dantescos

• Historia de la eternidad