Borges Center at the University of Pittsburgh Borges Center at the University of Pittsburgh

Hispanic Languages and Literature

Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana

1962

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Biography

Recognition by the French government. René Mugica makes a film version of "Hombre de la esquina rosada." Publication of Labyrinths, edited by Donald Yates and James Irby.

Locations

Borges visits France, New Mexico, California, and Harvard before returning to Buenos Aires.

Historical Context

The Peronist party wins elections in the province of Buenos Aires and Frondizi intervenes the province to stop the institutional process. The military arrest Frondizi and force his resignation. President of the senate José María Guido becomes president of the nation.

Books

  • El Aleph. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1962. 198 pp. [Third edition. No changes from 1952 edition.]
  • Los mejores cuentos policiales; Segunda serie. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1962. [Fourth edition.]
  • Historia universal de la infamia. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1962. [Third edition in the Obras completas series.]

Periodical Publications

  • Inglaterra. La Nación (22 March 1962). [Essay included in Páginas de Jorge Luis Borges seleccionadas por el autor.]
  • Texas. Sur 275 (March-April 1962), p. 14. [Poem included in El otro, el mismo.]
  • The Achievements of Walt Whitman. Texas Quarterly 5.1 (spring 1962), pp. 43-48. [Transcription of a talk given in fall 1961 at the University of Texas.]
  • El concepto de una academia y los celtas: Discurso de Jorge Luis Borges en su recepción académica. Boletín de la Academia Argentina de Letras 27.105-106 (July-December 1962). [Talk included in Textos recobrados 1956-1986, pp. 89-97.]
  • A quien ya no es joven. La Nación (28 October 1962), 4th section, p. 1. [Poem included in El otro, el mismo.]
  • A propósito de un homenaje de Francia. Victoria Ocampo y Jorge Luis Borges comendadores de la orden de artes y letras. La Nación (16 December 1962). 

Prefaces and Notes

  • Prólogo. José Hernández. El gaucho Martín Fierro. La vuelta de Martín Fierro. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Centurión, 1962. [Two volume facsimile edition. Preface included in Prólogos.]
  • Prólogo. José Hernández. Martín Fierro. Buenos Aires: Sur, 1962, pp. 7-12. [Preface included in Prólogos.]
  • Prólogo. Almafuerte. Prosa y poesía de Almafuerte. Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 1962, pp. 5-11. 
  • Un destino. Héctor Basaldúa, ed. Testimonios sobre Victoria Ocampo. Buenos Aires: La Fleur, 1962. [Essay included in Textos recobrados 1956-1986, pp. 86-88.]
  • Prólogo. Pettoruti: Homenaje Nacional a 50 años de labor artística. Buenos Aires: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1962. [Preface dated 13 August 1962.]
  • Prólogo. Catálogo de la Exposición de Libros Españoles. Buenos Aires: 1962. [Preface dated 9 August 1962. Exhibit held at the Teatro Municipal General San Martín.]

Interviews

  • Tyre, Carl A. Jorge Luis Borges. Hispania 45.1 (1962), pp. 80-82.
    • Hanson: This is a summary of a visit Tyre had with Borges and offers no new insights.
  • Irby, James E. Entrevista con Borges. Revista de la Universidad de México 16.10 (1962), pp. 4-10.
    • Hanson: This 1962 interview begins with a four and a half page detailed description of Borges. Borges speaks of literature, his stay in Europe, many of his own literary works and the Minotaur. The most important early interview with Borges. 
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