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Man on Pink Corner" (original Spanish title: "Hombre de la Esquina Rosada") is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is the first of several stories he wrote concerning duels between knife-fighters, which Borges recognized as one of his archetypal themes.
Bustos Domecq made his first appearance as F. (Francisco) Bustos, the pseudonym under which Borges, in 1933, published his first fictional story, now known as "Hombre de la esquina rosada", ("Man from the Pink Corner") but originally titled "Hombre de las orillas" ("Man from the Slums" or more literally "Man from the Outskirts"), Francisco Bustos being the name of "one forefather's forefather".
Hombre de la esquina rosada (1962) Propiedad (1962) El bruto o (1962) Cristóbal Colón en la Facultad de Medicina (1962) Misión 52 (1962) Operación G (1962) Mi Buenos Aires querido (1961) El romance de un gaucho (1961) Esta tierra es mía (1961) Rebelde con causa (1961) El centroforward murió al amanecer (1961) La maestra enamorada (1961)
"Historia de un Amor" (Spanish for "Love Story") is a song about a man's old love written by Panamanian songwriter Carlos Eleta Almarán. It was written after the death of his brother's wife. It is also part of the soundtrack of a 1956 Mexican film of the same name starring Libertad Lamarque. The song tells of a man's suffering after his love ...
The site, originally at the shoreline of the Río de la Plata, was first occupied by the "Fort of Juan Baltazar of Austria", a structure built on the orders of the founder of Buenos Aires, Captain Juan de Garay, in 1594. Its 1713 replacement by a masonry structure (the "Castle of San Miguel") complete with turrets made the spot the effective ...
Hombre de la esquina rosada: Streetcorner Man: Man on Pink Corner: Etcétera: Et cetera: Et cetera: Un teólogo en la muerte: A Theologian in Death: A Theologian in Death: Philipp Melanchthon: La cámara de las estatuas: The Chamber of Statues: The Chamber of Statues: Historia de los dos que soñaron: Tale of the Two Dreamers: The Story of the ...
The first half of the book, titled Envois (sendings), contains a series of love letters addressed by a travelling "salesman" to an unnamed loved one. The latter remembers, for example, "the day we bought that bed (the complications with the credit and the punch card in the store, and then one of those awful scenes between us)". [2]
Man on Pink Corner (Spanish: Hombre de la Esquina Rosada) is a 1962 Argentine film directed by René Múgica, based on the story by Jorge Luis Borges. [1] It was shown at the Cannes and San Sebastián film festivals. [1] Borges viewed the film favourably, commenting "he did a good job with the possibilities provided by the plot". [2]