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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 ...
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (/ ˈ b ɔːr h ɛ s / BOR-hess; [2] Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ⓘ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.
"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 ...
Borges El Memorioso, 1977, conversations with Antonio Carrizo (ISBN 968-16-1351-1). The title is a play on Borges's story "Funes El Memorioso", known in English as "Funes, the Memorious". Rosa y Azul: La rosa de Paracelso; Tigres azules, 1977, (short stories). Borges, oral, 1979, lectures. Siete noches, 1980, lectures. English title, Seven Nights.
Martín Fierro has earned major praise and commentaries from Leopoldo Lugones, Miguel de Unamuno, Jorge Luis Borges (see also Borges on Martín Fierro) and Rafael Squirru, among others. The Martín Fierro Award , named after the poem, is the most respected award for Argentine television and radio programs.
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 ...
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 ...