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El "Martín Fierro", 1953, written with Margarita Guerrero, ISBN 84-206-1933-7. The poem Martin Fierro is available in an English translation by Frank G. Carrino, Alberto J. Carlos, and Norman Mangouni as The Gaucho Martín Fierro. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1974, paperback. ISBN 0-87395-284-7. A hardcover edition of the same ...
"The End" is a response to the Argentine epic Martín Fierro, which Borges had discussed in a long essay published earlier that year. [1] In the story, a man who presumably has had a crippling stroke winds up half seeing and half hearing a definitive fight between a "negro" guitarist who has been dwelling in the man's store and a mysterious stranger who turns out to be Martin Fierro, whom the ...
The Gaucho Martin Fierro by José Hernández, translated by Walter Owen, Shakespeare Head Press, 1935 In the 1920s, Borges and other avant-garde Argentine writers embracing "art for art's sake" published a magazine called Martín Fierro ; they are often referred to collectively as the grupo Martín Fierro ("Martín Fierro group"), although at ...
Borges contributed to a few avant garde publications in the early 1920s, including one called Martín Fierro, named after the major work of nineteenth-century Argentine literature, Martín Fierro, a gauchesque poem by José Hernández, published in two parts, in 1872 and 1880. Initially, along with other young writers of his generation, Borges ...
Margarita Guerrero, photographed by Grete Stern in 1942. Margarita Guerrero was an Argentine dancer and writer. [1] She is known for her collaborations with Jorge Luis Borges, with whom she co-wrote and edited Book of Imaginary Beings and El "Martín Fierro".
The first paragraph in "The South" mentions Martín Fierro, a character from "The End", another one of Borges' short stories in the same collection. It also may refer to José Hernández's poem "Martín Fierro", which Borges was an admirer of. "The South" inspired and is referenced in the short story "The Insufferable Gaucho" [4] by Roberto ...
"Funes the Memorious" (original Spanish title Funes el memorioso) [1] is a fantasy short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). First published in La Nación of June 1942, it appeared in the 1944 anthology Ficciones, part two (Artifices).
This list follows the chronology of original (typically Spanish-language) publication in books, based in part on the rather comprehensive (but incomplete) bibliography online at the Borges Center (originally the J. L. Borges Center for Studies & Documentation at the University of Aarhus, then at the University of Iowa, now—as of 2010—at the University of Pittsburgh).