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

Hispanic Languages and Literature

Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana

1969

Bibliography Type

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Biography

Travels to Israel and the United States.

Locations

Borges lives with his first wife Elsa Astute Millán at Belgrano 1337. Late in the year Borges participates in a conference at the University of Oaklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. After the conference he tours other locations in the United States, most notably Michigan State University in East Lansing, where he gives a poetry reading.

Historical Context

Major popular revolt against the regime  in the city of Córdoba (“Cordobazo”). Beginning of the end of Onganía´s dictatorship. Vandor assassinated.

Books

  • Elogio de la sombra / Jorge Luis Borges. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1969. 160 pp. [First edition; two more editions were published in the same year.]
  • Prólogo, Juan, I, 14, Heráclito, Cambridge, Elsa, New England, 1967, James Joyce, The Unending Gift, El laberinto, Laberinto, Mayo 20, 1928, Roberto Güiraldes, El etnógrafo, A cierta sombra, 1940, Las cosas, Rubaiyat, Pedro Salvadores, A Israel, Israel, El guardián de los libros, Los gauchos, Acevedo, Milonga de Manuel Flores, Milonga de Calandria, Invocación de Joyce, Israel, 1969, Dos versiones de "Ritter, Tod und Teufel," Buenos Aires, Fragmentos de un evangelio apócrifo, Leyenda, Una oración, His end and his beginning, Un lector, Elogio de la sombra. 
  • El encuentro. Buenos Aires: Imprenta de Francisco A. Colombo, 1969. N. pag. [With an illustration by Hector Balsadúa.]
  • Fervor de Buenos Aires.  Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1969. 156 pp. [Radically rewritten edition of Fervor, with preface that claims that the book has not been rewritten.]
  • Luna de enfrente y Cuaderno San Martín. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1969. 132 pp. [With new prefaces.]
  • El otro, el mismo. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1969. 263 pp. [First edition as a separate volume, since earlier versions had been included in successive editions of the Obra poética. Illustrations by Raúl Soldi.]
  • Prólogo, A Leopoldo Lugones, Insomnio, La noche cíclica, Del infierno y del cielo, Poema conjetural, Poema del cuarto elemento, A un poeta menor de la antología, Página para recordar al Coronel Suárez, vencedor en Junín, Mateo, XXV, 30, Una brújula, Una llave en Salónica, Un poeta del siglo XIII, Un soldado de Urbina, Límites [Hay una línea ...], Baltasar Gracián, Un sajón, El Golem, El tango, Poema de los dones, El reloj de arena, Ajedrez, Los espejos, Elvira de Alvear, Susana Soca, La luna, La lluvia, A la efigie de un capitán de los ejércitos de Cromwell, A un viejo poeta, El otro tigre, Blind Pew, Alusión a una sombra de mil ochocientos noventa y tantos, Alusión a la muerte del coronel Francisco Borges (1835-74), In memoriam A.R., Los Borges, A Luis de Camoens, Mil novecientos veintitantos, Oda compuesta en 1960, Ariosto y los árabes, Al iniciar el estudio de la gramática anglosajona, Lucas, XXIII, Adrogué, Arte poética, El otro, Una rosa y Milton, Lectores, Juan, I, 14, El despertar, Buenos Aires, A quien ya no es joven, Alexander Selkirk, Odisea, libro vigésimo tercero, El, Sarmiento, A un poeta menor de 1899, Texas, Composición escrita en un ejemplar de la gesta de Beowulf, Hengist Cyning, Fragmento, A una espada en Yorkminster, A un poeta sajón, Snorri Storluson (1179-1241), A Carlos XII, Emanuel Swedenborg, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1785), Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Rafael Cansinos Assens, París, 1856, Los enigmas, El instante, Al vino, Soneto al vino, 1964, El hambre, El forastero, A quién está leyéndome, El alquimista, Alguien, Everness, Ewigkeit, Edipo y el enigma, Spinoza, España, Elegía, Adam cast forth, A una moneda, Otro poema de los dones, Oda escrita en 1966, El sueño, Junín,Un soldado de Lee (1862), El mar, Una mañana de 1649, Buenos Aires, A un poeta sajón, Al hijo, El puñal, Los compadritos muertos, Para las seis cuerdas:, Milonga de dos hermanos, ¿Dónde se hábran ido?, Milonga de Jacinto Chiclana, Milonga de don Nicanor Paredes,Un cuchillero en el norte, El títere, Milonga de los morenos, Milonga de los orientales, Milonga de Albornoz.
  • Nueva antología personal. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1969. 305 pp. [New edition.]
  • Historia universal de la infamia. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1969. 137 pp. [New edition.]
  • Discusión. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1969. 180 pp. [Fifth edition in the Obras completas series.]
  • El Aleph. Barcelona, Planeta, 1969. 232 pp.  [New edition.]
  • El hacedor. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1969. 109 pp. [Sixth edition in the Obras completas series.]
  • El Aleph. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1969. 179 pp. [Eleventh edition in the Obras completas series.]
  • Evaristo Carriego. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1969. 175 pp. [Fifth edition in the Obras completas series.]

Periodical Publications

  • Mayo 20, 1928. Sur 316-317 (January-April 1969), pp. 1-2. [Poem on the suicide of Francisco López Merino, included in Elogio de la sombra.]
  • Los gauchos. La Nación (16 August 1969), fourth section, p. 1. [Poem included in Elogio de la sombra.]
  • Historia de Rosendo Juárez. La Nación  (9 November 1969), fourth section. [Story included in El informe de Brodie.]
  • El evangelio según Marcos. La Nación (2 August 1969). [Story included in El informe de Brodie.]
  • El encuentro. La Prensa (5 October 1969), Sunday supplement, p. 2. [Story included in El informe de Brodie.]
  • Tankas. La Nación (5 October 1969), fourth section, p. 1. [Poems included in El oro de los tigres.]

Articles included in Books

  • Una historia del libro. 10o aniversario de la primera promoción. Buenos Aires: Escuela Nacional de Bibliotecarios, pp. 21-30.

Prefaces

  • Prólogo. Eduardo Carroll. El Cristo de la Pampa. Buenos Aires, Ediciones Artes y Ciencias, 1969, p. 3.
  • Prólogo. Walt Whitman. Hojas de hierba. Buenos Aires: Editorial Juárez, 1969, pp. 27-31. [Preface dated Buenos Aires, 19 June 1969, included in Prólogos.]
  • Preface. Didier Tisdel Jaén. Homage to Walt Whitman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1969. [Anthology of poems in Spanish on Whitman with translations by Jaén. Preface dated Cambridge, Massachusetts, 3 April 1968.]
  • Preface. Ronald Christ. The Narrow Act: Borges' Art of Allusion. New York: New York University Press. 
  • Prólogo. Estanislao del Campo. Fausto. Buenos Aires: Edicom, 1969. [Different preface from the Editorial Nova edition in 1946. Included in Prólogos.]
  • Prólogo. María del Luján Ortiz Alcántara. Por donde cruza el viento. Buenos Aires: Colombo, 1969.
  • Nota sobre los argentinos. Ernest Lewald, Argentina, análisis y autoanálisis. 1969. [Preface dated Buenos Aires, 23 October 1968.]

Translations

  • Walt Whitman. Hojas de hierba. Buenos Aires: Editorial Juárez, 1969. 171 pp. [Selection, translation and preface by Jorge Luis Borges. Critical Study by Guillermo N. Juárez.]

Interviews

  • Burgin, Richard. Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges. New York: Holt, 1969. [New York: Avon, 1970. London: Souvenir, 1973. Rpt. as Conversazioni con Borges. Trans. Vanna Brocca. Milano: Palazzi, 1971. Rpt. as Conversations avec J. L. Borges. Trans. Lola Trance. Paris: Gallimard, 1972. Rpt. as Conversaciones con Jorge Luis Borges. Trans. Manuel R. Coronado. Madrid: Taurus, 1974.]
    • Hanson: This is the definitive Borges interview book and is the result of numerous conversations between Burgin and Borges beginning in 1967 while Borges was a visiting professor at Harvard. As an extensive collection of conversations, it encompasses a wide range of topics typical of Borges interviews, including: his love of literature, his childhood, metaphysics, his literary works, philosophy, literature, violence, Nazism, detective stories, time, Henry James, Kafka, poetry, his stories that have been made into films, the cinema, Lorca, Neruda, Unamuno, art, Darwin, politics, Bioy Casares, Perón, God, and infinity.
  • Ocampo, Victoria. Diálogo con Borges. Sur: Buenos Aires, 1969.
    • Hanson: This 85-page book contains a dialogue between Borges and his friend Victoria Ocampo, with whom he collaborated in the publication of the magazine Sur. In this intimate interview topics are introduced as Ocampo questions Borges about photographs in his album. Their conversation addresses his ancestry, his childhood, how his personal history appears in his literary works, why he writes, his father, fame, literature, words such as “haunted” and “uncanny,” Westerns, and Adolfo Bioy Casares.
  • Stern, Richard. Borges on Borges. American Scholar 38.3 (1969), pp. 452-458. [Included in The Invention of the Real. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1982. pp. 27-45. And in Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations. Ed. Richard Burgin. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1998. pp. 1-13.]
    • Hanson: This 1966 interview is unique because it details Borges’s view on writing and his writing process.
  • Valbona, Rima de. Por los pasillos de Jorge Luis Borges. Ínsula 275/276 (1969), p. 4.
    • Hanson: Borges talks with students about literature. Borges discusses the novel, his own literary works, “La escritura del dios,” and his influences.
  • Dembo, L. S. Jorge Luis Borges. The Contemporary Writer. Ed. L.S. Dembo and Cyrena N. Pondrom. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1972. pp. 113-21. [Included in Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations. Ed. Richard Burgin. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1998. pp. 85-91.]

    • Hanson: In this 1969 interview Borges talks about himself as a symbol, idealistic philosophy, the labyrinth, the Minotaur, his literary works, and dreams.

  • Moyano, María Clara. Portrait of a Man Reading. The Washington Post (12 January 1969), p. 2.
    • Hanson: Borges gives straightforward answers about reading and writing, American and Hispanic literature, and his writing process.
  • Regresa Borges. La Razón (29 January 1969).
    • Hanson: A short interview about Borges’s trip to Israel. A photo in the article shows Borges with Elsa, his first wife.
  • Cuentos de Borges. Siete días (10 February 1969), pp. 33-34. [Included in El otro Borges: Entrevistas (1960 – 1986). Comp. Fernando Mateo. Buenos Aires: Equis, 1997. pp. 31-37.]
    • Hanson: This article is a series of quotes taken from Borges during an interview, but does not include the questions. Borges is quoted on knife fights, the National Library, British humor, nouveau roman, his writing with Bioy Casares, and contemporary literature.
  • Pueyrredón, Victoria. Cuestionario. El País [?] May 1969.
    • Hanson: Borges offers short and plain answers to questions on his literary works, literature, and literary criticism.
  • Sánchez, Nestor. Borges igual a Borges. Artiempo [Buenos Aires] (4 May 1969), pp. 8-9. [Included in Borges: Dos palabras antes de morir y otras entrevistas. Comp. Fernando Mateo. Buenos Aires: LC Editor, 1994. pp. 89-96.
    • Hanson: This interview addresses Borges’s literary work and influences, including: Macedonio Fernández, Victoria Ocampo, and Marcel Schwob.
  • Ecos de la conquista de la luna en nuestro país. [unknown] (20 July 1969).
    • Hanson: Borges gives his view of the eminent moon landing of Apollo 11.
  • Camp, André. Habla Jorge Luis Borges. Trans. Ramón Luis Chao. Triunfo (December 1969).
    • Hanson: This is the second part of the interview taken from a French television program. Borges speaks philosophically on the universe, death, civilization, and tells how he felt when he was named director of the National Library. The discussions are especially meaningful and well thought out in this interview.
  • Camp, André, and José María Berzosa. Las respuestas del oráculo. Periscopio (2 December 1969), pp. 50-51.
    • Hanson: Taken from a French television program, Borges makes statements on progress, violence, war, democracy, dictatorship, excess of information, Israel and Greece, eternity, and immortality. Borges’s statements on violence and war are especially witty.
  • Jorge Luis Borges: Reportaje exclusivo. El Día (14 December 1969), pp. 12-13.
    • Hanson: An interview about Borges’s concept of time, death, and God.

Criticism

  • Ronald Christ. The Narrow Act: Borges' Art of Allusion. New York: New York University Press. 

 

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