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It's so cool that Max Beerbohm (1872) & Jorge Luis Borges (1899) share a birthday. They have so much in common. Beerbohm is as profound as Borges; Borges is as funny as Beerbohm.
Photos:
Cecil Beaton, 1927 @NPGLondon
Ulf Andersen, Paris, 1979
Photos:
Cecil Beaton, 1927 @NPGLondon
Ulf Andersen, Paris, 1979
Max Beerbohm by William Newzam Prior Nicholson
oil on canvas, 1905
@NPGLondon
"In his prose, as in his drawings, Max Beerbohm hardly knew failure; time and again the nail is delicately but sharply hit on the head, the point firmly driven home."
- John Mortimer
oil on canvas, 1905
@NPGLondon
"In his prose, as in his drawings, Max Beerbohm hardly knew failure; time and again the nail is delicately but sharply hit on the head, the point firmly driven home."
- John Mortimer
Jorge Luis Borges by Ferdinando Scianna, 1984
"His fables are written from a height of intelligence less rare in philosophy & physics than in fiction. Furthermore, he is, at least for anyone whose taste runs to puzzles or pure speculation, delightfully entertaining"
- John Updike
"His fables are written from a height of intelligence less rare in philosophy & physics than in fiction. Furthermore, he is, at least for anyone whose taste runs to puzzles or pure speculation, delightfully entertaining"
- John Updike
