There is a Borges Cultural Centre (CCB) in Buenos Aires. Bearing the name of Argentina’s most famous writer it reopened its doors this March 2022 after a two-year pandemic closure. One of the objectives of the centre is to bring Borges’s work closer to readers who have not yet found the entry point. "Funes the Memorious" is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges and it is the tale of one Ireneo Funes, who, after falling off his horse and receiving a bad head injury, acquired the amazing talent—or curse— of remembering absolutely everything. Jorge Luis Borges has received universal acclaim for the depth with which he approached matters of philosophic and scientific import in his writings. His writings explores themes like eternity, pain, time, and metafiction. Jorge Luis Borges received the Miguel de Cervantes Award for his global work in 1980, the most important literary award in the Spanish language. Borges's mother translated William Saroyan, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Virginia Woolf, and Herman Melville into Spanish. Borges had an aversion to politics which is one of the reasons why he was not awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature.
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