Bibliography Type
Biography
Borges's mother and sister are arrested for participating in an unauthorized demonstration against the new Peronist constitution; the mother is sentenced to house arrest and Norah spends a month in prison.
Locations
Borges continues living at Calle Maipú 994, CABA.
Historical Context
Nationalization of British-owned railways.
Periodical Publications
- John Donne: Biathanatos. Sur 159 (January 1948), pp. 105-08. [Essay included in Otras inquisiciones as "El 'Biathanatos.'"]
- El simurg y el águila. La Nación (14 March 1948), second section, p. 1. [Essay included in Nueve ensayos dantescos.]
- El enigma de Ulises. Escritura [Montevideo] 2.3 (March 1948), pp. 5-7. [Modified version published in La Nación in August, included in Nueve ensayos dantescos.]
- El verdugo piadoso. Sur 163 (May 1948), pp. 9-12. [Essay included in Nueve ensayos dantescos.]
- El seudo problema de Ugolino. La Nación (30 May 1948), second section, p. 1. [Essay included in Nueve ensayos dantescos.]
- El último viaje de Ulises. La Nación (22 August 1948), second section, p. 1. [Essay included in Nueve ensayos dantescos.]
- Emma Zunz. Sur 167 (September 1948), pp. 14-19. [Story included in El Aleph.]
- El encuentro en un sueño. La Nación (3 October 1948), second section, p. 1. [Essay included in Nueve ensayos dantescos.]
Prefaces
- Prólogo. Estanislao del Campo. Fausto: impresiones del gaucho Anastasio el Pollo en la representación de esta ópera. Buenos Aires: Nova, 1948, pp. 7-9. [Preface included in Prólogos.]
- Prólogo. Adolfo Bioy Casares, La invención de Morel. Buenos Aires: Sur, 1948, pp. 9-13. [Second edition; included in Prólogos.]
- Prólogo. Ema Risso Platero. Arquitectura del insomnio. Buenos Aires: Botella al Mar, 1948. [Preface included in Textos recobrados 1931-1955, pp. 258-59.]
- Prólogo. Virginia Woolf. Orlando, una biografía. Buenos Aires: Sur, 1948.
- Prólogo. Francisco de Quevedo. Prosa y verso. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1948. [Preface included in Prólogos.]
Translations
- Virginia Woolf. Orlando, una biografía. Buenos Aires: Sur, 1948. [Reprint of 1937 translation.]
Interview
- H., O. Habla para Cabalgata Jorge Luis Borges: Sobre el mundo de lo fantástico y lo gauchesco. Cabalgata (January 1948), p. 11.
- Hanson: Borges talks about his own current projects, his projects with Bioy Casares, gaucho poetry, and who he considers to be the best of the new generation of Argentine authors.