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[[Image:Buenos Aires L1.jpg|thumb|Quotation by Borges at Buenos Aires Metro station in Madrid: "It smacks of fiction that Buenos Aires was ever founded. I judge her to be as eternal as the sea and the wind."]]

Nel [[1967]] Borges sposò Elsa Astete Millàn, che era rimasta vedova da poco. Gli amici credevano che sua madre, ormai novantenne, volesse trovare qualcuno a cui affidare il figlio, completamente cieco. Lo scrittore, tuttavia, divorziò dopo tre anni e tornò da sua madre, con la quale visse fin quando morì, all'età di novantanove anni<ref>Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, ''The Lessons of the Master''<!-- page number? publication data? --></ref>.

In 1967 Borges married the recently widowed Elsa Astete Millán. Friends believed that his mother, who was 90 and anticipating her own death, wanted to find someone to care for her blind son. The marriage lasted less than three years. After a legal separation, Borges moved back in with his mother, with whom he lived until her death at age 99.<ref>Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, ''The Lessons of the Master''<!-- page number? publication data? --></ref> Thereafter, he lived alone in the small flat he had shared with her, cared for by Fanny, their housekeeper of many decades.<ref>"Fanny", ''El Señor Borges''<!-- page number? publication data? --></ref> From 1975 until the time of his death, Borges traveled internationally. He was often accompanied in these travels by his personal assistant [[María Kodama]], an Argentine woman of Japanese and German ancestry. In April 1986, a few months before his death, he married her via an attorney in [[Paraguay]].

Dal [[1975]] fino alla sua morte lo scrittore prevalentemente viaggiò, accompagnato dall'assistente personale [[María Kodama]], che sposo nell'[[aprile]] [[1986]] in [[Paraguay]], pochi mesi prima della sua morte.

Morì lo stesso anno di [[Carcinoma epatocellulare|cancro al fegato]] a Ginevra e lì fu sepolto nel ''Cimetière des Rois'' (cimitero dei re).

Jorge Luis Borges died of [[Hepatocellular carcinoma|liver cancer]] in 1986 in Geneva and was buried there in the ''[[Cimetière des Rois]]''. After years of legal wrangling about the legality of the marriage, Kodama, as sole inheritor of a significant annual income, gained control over his works. Her administration of his estate was denounced by the French publisher [[Gallimard]], by ''[[Le Nouvel Observateur]]'', and by intellectuals such as [[Beatriz Sarlo]], as an obstacle to the serious reading of Borges's works.<ref>{{es icon}} Octavi Martí, Kodama frente a Borges, ''El País'' (Madrid), Edición Impresa, 16 August 2006. [http://www.elpais.es/articulo/revista/agosto/Kodama/frente/Borges/elpporcul/20060816elpepirdv_1/Tes Abstract online]; full text accessible online by subscription only.</ref> Under Kodama, the Borges estate rescinded all publishing rights for existing collections of his work in English, including the translations by [[Norman Thomas di Giovanni]], in which Borges himself cooperated, and from which di Giovanni received fifty percent of the royalties. The estate commissioned new translations by [[Andrew Hurley (academic)|Andrew Hurley]].<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/12/1057783281684.html Richard Flanagan, "Writing with Borges", ''[[The Age]]'' (Australia), 12 July 2003.] Accessed 2010-08-16</ref>