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Biography
Beginning of publication of the Obras completas as a set of individual volumes, under the direction of José Edmundo Clemente. Roger Caillois translates some of the stories of El Aleph into French.
Locations
Borges continues living at Calle Maipú 994, CABA.
Historical Context
Peronist masses set the exclusive Jockey Club afire.
Books
- Historia de la eternidad. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1953. 157 pp. [Revised and expanded edition of 1936, with the addition of a preface and the essays "El tiempo circular" and "La metáfora." This book inaugurates the Obras completas series.]
- El "Martín Fierro." Buenos Aires: Columba, 1953. 79 pp.
Periodical Publications
- Destino escandinavo. Sur 219-220 (January-February 1953), pp. 9-13. [Essay included in Borges en Sur, pp. 49-54. Manuscript included in Ensayos pp. 145-56.]
- El escritor argentino y la tradición. Cursos y Conferencias 21.42 (1953), pp. 515-25. ["Versión taquigráfica de la clase dada en el Colegio libre de estudios superiores, 19 de diciembre de 1951." Essay included in the second edition of Discusión. Notes for this talk are reproduced in Balderston, How Borges Wrote, pp. 237-243 and 251-57. Manuscripts housed at Special Collections at the University of Pittsburgh: for finder's aid click here.]
- El destino de Ulfilas. Buenos Aires Literaria 1.5 (February 1953), pp. 1-5. [Essay included in Textos recobrados 1931-1955, pp. 298-301.]
- El Sur. La Nación (8 February 1953), second section, p. 1. [Story included in the second edition of Ficciones.]
- A un poeta menor de la antología. La Nación (4 April 1953), second section, p. 1. [Poem included in El otro, el mismo.]
- Diálogos del asceta y del rey. La Nación (20 September 1953), second section, p. 1. [Essay included in Textos recobrados 1931-1955, pp. 302-06.]
- La literatura alemana en la epoca de Bach. Cursos y Conferencias 22.44 (October 1953), pp. 289-97. [Essay included in Textos recobrados 1931-1955, pp. 312-22.]
- El fin. La Nación (11 October 1953), second section, p. 1. [Story included in the second edition of Ficciones.]
- La apostasia de Coifi. Entregas de la licorne [second period, Montevideo] 1.1-2 (November 1953), pp. 45-48. [Essay included in Textos recobrados 1931-1955, pp. 307-11.]
- Mateo XXV, 30. La Nación (15 November 1953), second section, p. 1. [Poem included in El otro, el mismo. Two manuscripts included in Poemas y prosas breves, pp. 99-106.]
Texts in Anthology
- El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan. Rodolfo J. Walsh. Diez cuentos policiales argentinos. Buenos Aires: Hachette, 1953. [Reprint of story from Ficciones.]
- Las previsiones de Sangiácomo. Rodolfo J. Walsh. Diez cuentos policiales argentinos. Buenos Aires: Hachette, 1953. [Reprint of story by Bustos Domecq.]
Talks