Borges himself was devoted to this task: he was a librarian.

博尔赫斯本人就投身于这项任务：他就是一名图书馆员。

There Borges started to think that his father was her "client".

而博尔赫斯以为他的父亲是那个窑姐儿的老恩主。

But as history would have it, he won the Nobel prize and Borges didn't.

但历史有自己的记录，他获得了诺贝尔文学奖而博尔赫斯没有。

In it, Borges explores the odd realities of a truly infinite library.

在书中，博尔赫斯就一个真正的无限图书馆确实存在这一听来奇特的现实展开了探索。

Borges, a short-story writer, poet and essayist, died in 1986 without the Nobel.

博尔赫斯死于1986年，这位短篇小说作家、诗人和散文家没有获得诺贝尔奖的垂青。