Allen, William Hervey
American author (1889-1949).
American author (1889-1949).
minor figure in Borges-Bioy filmscript
Deussen universal history of philosophy, 2 vols., 1894-1917, including sections on the philosophy of India, the philosophy of the West from the Greeks to Schopenhauer, and the philosophy of the Bible
"A Common Confusion," Kafka short story
Eduardo Wilde
book by Enrique González Tuñón, 1927
Carriego title poem of a section of Las misas herejes, 1908
A poem by Marcelo del Mazo
anthology of tango lyrics, c.1924
Lugones poem in Las horas doradas
book by Rafael Alberto Arrieta
bar in Buenos Aires
knife-fighter in Borges story
Bonastre, 1920
Argentine poet, pseud. of Pedro Bonifacio Palacios, 1854-1917.
Fishburn and Hughes: "The pseudonym of Pedro Bonifacio Palacio, an Argentine author and journalist who became a cult figure. In his youth Borges admired Almafuerte and was moved by his messianic tone, saying that almost all Argentinians of his generation learned to appreciate the full aesthetic function of language through the 'suffering' and the 'extasis' of Almafuerte (Evaristo Carriego. 39). Though Almafuerte is now somewhat neglected, Borges listed him in his Prologue to the Anthology of Argentinian Poetry (1941) as one of the most important Argentinian poets. Borges also wrote a preface to the collection of Almafuerte's prose and poetry published in 1962, in which he summarised the book he would have liked to have written about Almafuerte, reaffirming his admiration for his 'stoicism and inexplicable poetic power'." (8)
Antonio Herrero book
Herrero, 1920
Arabic name for Ptolemy's Syntaxis, astronomical work
neighborhood in Buenos Aires where the Biblioteca Municipal Miguel Cané (where Borges worked for nine years as a librarian) is located.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A lower-middle-class district not far from the centre of Buenos Aires. Borges worked for nine years in the Biblioteca Miguel Cané in Almagro." (8)
neighborhood in Buenos Aires