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Biography

Crime fiction in collaboration with Bioy Casares. Presents El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan for the Premio Nacional de Literatura; when it is not awarded the prize Sur publishes a special issue on Borges.

Locations

Borges continues to live in the apartment at Quintana 263.

Historical Context

President  Ortiz resigns and Castillo becomes president. Foreign Ministers of the Americas meet in Rio de Janeiro, where the U.S. seeks support against the Axis. Argentina opposes US agenda and maintains neutrality. The US embassy increases contacts with pro-democracy local opposition groups. Radical Party leaders Marcelo T. de Alvear and Roberto Ortiz die.  Former president and conservative leader  Justo dies.

Books

  • H. Bustos Domecq. Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi. Buenos Aires: Sur, 1942. 164 pp. 
  • Las doce figuras del mundo, Las noches de Goliadkin, El dios de los toros, Las previsiones de Sangiácomo, La víctima de Tadeo Limardo, La prolongada busca de Tal An.
  • [Bustos Domecq is the first of the various pseudonyms used by Borges and Bioy Casares for their works in collaboration. With a preface by one of the fictional characters, Gervasio Montenegro. Later included in Obras completas en colaboración.]

 

Periodical Publications

  • Las doce figuras del mundo. Sur 88 (January 1942), pp. 36-52. [Written with Adolfo Bioy Casares and published under the pseudonym Honorario Bustos Domecq. Included in Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi.]
  • Walt Whitman: Canto a mí mismo. Traducido por León Felipe. Sur 88 (January 1942), pp. 68-70. [Review included in Borges en Sur, pp. 245-47. 
  • El idioma analítico de John Wilkins. La Nación (8 February 1942), second section, p. 1. [Essay included in Otras inquisiciones.]
  • Teoría de Almafuerte.  La Nación (22 February 1942), second section, p. 1. [Essay included in Textos recobrados 1931-1955, 195-99, and with variants in Prólogos.]
  • Las noches de Goliadkin. Sur 90 (March 1942), 34-50. [Written with Adolfo Bioy Casares and published under the pseudonym Honorario Bustos Domecq. Included in Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi.]
  • Roger Caillois: Le roman policier. Sur 91 (April 1942), pp. 56-57. [Review of Caillois's 1941 book, included in Borges en Sur, pp. 248-51.] La muerte y la brújula. Sur 92 (May 1942), pp. 27-39. [Story included in Ficciones.]
  • La muerte y la brújula. Sur 92 (May 1942), pp. 27-39. [Story included in Ficciones.]
  • Observación final. Sur 92 (May 1942), pp. 72-73. [Further round of polemics with Caillois on crime fiction, included in Borges en Sur, pp. 252-53.]
  • Funes el memorioso. La Nación (7 June 1942), second section, p. 3. [Story included in Ficciones.]
  • La forma de la espada. La Nación (26 July 1942), second section, p. 1.  [Story included in Ficciones.]
  • Michael Sadleir: Fanny by Gaslight. Sur 95 (August 1942), pp. 72-73. [Review included in Borges en Sur, pp. 254-55.]
  • Sobre la descripción literaria. Sur 97 (October 1942), pp. 100-02. [Essay included in Borges en Sur, pp. 170-72.]
  •  Sobre una alegoría china. La Nación (25 October 1942), second section, p. 1. [Essay included in Textos recobrados 1931-1955, pp. 200-03.]

Criticism

  • Desagravio a Borges. Sur 94 (July 1942).