Borges is not only the greatest literary giant in the world today, but also an unparalleled creative master. It is because of Borges that our Latin American literature has won an international reputation. He broke the shackles of tradition and pushed novels and prose to an extremely noble realm.
For more than half a century, there have been many labels attached to Borges: extremist, avant-garde, surrealism, fantasy literature, mysticism, metaphysics, magical realism, post- Modernism, these labels seem to present an aspect, a part, or a stage of it.
Characteristics of Borges' creation
Poetry, prose and short stories are Borges's three major creative achievements, and each has its own merits and complements each other. There is a very vivid saying: his prose reads like novels; his novels are poems; and his poems often make people feel like prose.
The bridge between the three is his thought. He is one of the three major Latin American poets along with Paz and Neruda. His poetry has simple language, pure style and far-reaching artistic conception.