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

Hispanic Languages and Literature

Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana

1974

Bibliography Type

<--1973 1975-->

Biography

Single volume Obras completas includes a fictive encyclopedia entry on Borges from 2074. La Opinión publishes a Spanish translation of "An Autobiographical Essay."

Locations

Borges continues living at Calle Maipú 994, CABA. 

Historical Context

Perón dies.  Maria Estela Martínez de Perón, known as Isabelita, becomes president. Final split between the left and right wings of Peronism. Powerful Minister José López Rega creates the Argentine Anti-communist Alliance (AAA), a right-wing paramilitary group focused on the physical elimination of leftist militants and guerrillas.  Montoneros and ERP escalate their armed actions. Public universities are intervened by the Peronist government and purged of leftist and opposition faculty and students.

Books

  • Cuentos breves y extraordinarios. Buenos Aires, 1973. 152. [New edition of anthology with Bioy Casares.]
  • Les autres. Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1974. 179 pp. [Filmscript written with Bioy Casares for film directed by Hugo Santiago.]
  • El informe de Brodie. Madrid: Alianza, 1974. 149 pp.
  • Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 1161 pp.

Periodical Periodicals

  • Films. Sur 334-35 (January-December 1974), pp.13-14 [Included in Borges en Sur, pp. 177-202.]
  • El bosque petrificado. Sur 334-35 (January-December 1974), pp.9-10 [Included in Borges en Sur, pp. 184-85.]
  • Un film abrumador. Sur 334-35 (January-December 1974), pp.20-21 [Included in Borges en Sur, pp. 199-200.]
  • Conversación con Jorge Luis Borges, por C.A. Burone. Sur 334-35 (January-December 1974), pp.133-35  [Included in Borges en Sur, pp. 316-320.]
  • Proteo. La Nación (10 February 1974), third section, p. 1. [Poem included in El oro de los tigres and later moved to La rosa profunda.]
  • El ciego. La Nación (24 March 1974), third section, p. 1. [Poem included later in El oro de los tigres and  and later moved to La rosa profunda.]
  • There are more things. Crisis 2.13 (May 1974), pp. 48-49. [Story included in El libro de arena.]
  • Utopía de un hombre que está cansado. La Nación (5 May 1974), third section, pp. 1-2. [Story included in El libro de arena.]
  • There Are More Things. Crisis 2.13 (May 1974), pp. 48-49. [Story included in El libro de arena.]
  • Sobre Lugones. La Nación (16 June 1974), third section, p. 1.
  • El bisonte.  La Nación (23 June 1974), third section, p. 1. [Poem included in La rosa profunda.]
  • Lugones-Macedonio 100 años. La Opinión (23 June 1974). 
  • Macedonio Fernández. La Nación (21 July 1974), third section, p. 1.
  • Inventario. La Nación (25 August 1974), third section, p. 1.  [Poem included in La rosa profunda.]
  • El otro. La Opinión (15 September 1974), cultural section, p. 1. [Story included in El libro de arena.]
  • La pantera. La Opinión (15 September 1974), cultural section, p. 7. [Poem included later in El oro de los tigres and  and later moved to La rosa profunda.]
  • Las memorias de Borges. La Opinión (17 September 1974), third section, p. 1. [Translation of Autobiographical Notes.]
  • All our yesterdays. La Nación (29 September 1974), second section, pp. 1-23. [Poem included in La rosa profunda.]
  • Cosmogonía. La Nación (24 November 1974), third section, p. 1. [Poem included in La rosa profunda.]
  • El testigo ("Desde su sueño el hombre ve al gigante"). La Nación (22 December 1974), third section, p. 1. [Poem included in La rosa profunda.]

Prefaces and Notes

  • Prólogo and Epílogo. Jorge Luis Borges. Obras completas. Buenos Aires, Emecé, 1974, pp. 1143-45.
  • Prólogo. Macedonio Fernández. Adriana Buenos Aires, última novela mala. Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 1974. [Preface signed with initials "C. D., "J. L. B." and "S. D.": César Dabove, Borges and Santiago Dabove.]
  • Prólogo. Domingo F. Sarmiento. Facundo. Buenos Aires, El Ateneo, 1974. [Included in Prólogos.]
  • Préface. Silvina Ocampo. Faits divers de la terre et du ciel. Paris: Gallimard, 1974. 
  • [Nota sobre "Juan Muraña.] Mi mejor cuento: Antología de cuentos seleccionados por sus autores. Buenos Aires: Alfa, 1974. 
  • Prólogo. Lewis Carroll. Los libros de Alicia. Buenos Aires Corregidor, 1974. [Preface included in Prólogos.]

Interviews

  • Burgin, Richard. Conversaciones con Jorge Luis Borges. Trans. Manuel R. Coronado. Madrid: Taurus, 1974. {Spanish Translation of Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (1969)]
  • Barnatán, Marcos Ricardo. Conversaciones en dos tiempos. Conocer Borges y su obra. España: Dopesa, 1978. pp. 99-121. [Included in Borges. Barcelona: Barcanova, 1984. pp. 87-105.]
    • Hanson: The occasion for this 1974 interview is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Fervor de Buenos Aires. Borges discusses his recent trip to Mexico, Europe, Perón, his literary works, his fame, language, and literature.
  • Sosnowski, Saul. Jorge Luis Borges. Hispamérica 3.8 (1974), pp. 55-60.
    • Hanson: Borges gives his answers in Spanglish in this fine discussion on Libro de arena and “Borges y yo.”
  • Burone, Carlos A. Cine: Conversación con Borges. Sur (January-December) 1974. [Included in Borges en Sur (1931-1980). Barcelona: Emecé, 1999. pp. 316-20.]
    • Hanson: Borges comments on the cinema, art, and specific actors.
  • Gillo, María Esther. Yo quería ser el hombre invisible. Crisis [Buenos Aires] (May 1974), pp. 40-50. [Included in Conversaciones. Buenos Aires: IMFC, 1993. pp. 21-43.]
    • Hanson: An entertaining interview because of its breadth and especially because of Borges’s reactions and answers. Their topics of conversation include: tango, his youth, religion, death, love, his literary works, critics, language, Buenos Aires, writing, nightmares, and the detective novel.​​​​​​​
  • Giménez Zapiola, Emilio. Toda mi vida y toda mi obra (por Jorge Luis Borges). Gente 4 (July 1974), pp. 56-59.
    • Hanson: This is the first part of a three part series. Borges remembers his childhood, how he learned about philosophy, his grandmothers, death, religion, and the Buenos Aires of his youth.
  • Giménez Zapiola, Emilio. Toda mi vida y toda mi obra (por Jorge Luis Borges): Segunda parte. Gente (11 July 1974), pp. 80-84.
    • Hanson: In the second part of this three part series Borges remembers Macedonio Fernández, authors he enjoys, Evaristo Carriego, his youth in Europe, his literary works, love, Argentina and/or himself in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, his blindness, and what has influenced him.
  • Giménez Zapiola, Emilio. Toda mi vida y toda mi obra (por Jorge Luis Borges): Última parte. Gente (18 July 1974), pp. 30-35.
    • Hanson: In the third and last section of this interview Borges discusses many themes, including: his literary works, reality vs. unreality, courage, play in literature, death, the cinema, Adolfo Bioy Casares, the future, music, writing, Old English, Buenos Aires, and what he dislikes about humankind.
  • Las memorias de Borges. La Opinión (17 September 1974), p. 1+.
    • Hanson: Borges recounts his memories of his family and childhood, when he lived in Europe beginning in 1914, what he did after he returned to Buenos Aires in 1921, Macedonio Fernández, his literary works, his friendships, what he read, when he worked in the library, his blindness, his fame, and his travels.
  • Esther Vásquez, María. Nuestro tiempo: miradas paralelas. La Nación [Buenos Aires] (24 November 1974). [Included in Borges: imágenes, memorias, diálogos. 2nd ed. Caracas: Monte Avila, 1977. pp. 227-39.]

    • Hanson: Francisco Luis Bernárdez and Borges answer questions on the characteristics and state of the world and of Argentina.

Criticism

María Luisa Bastos. Borges ante la crítica argentina, 1923-1960. Buenos Aires: Hispamérica, 1974. 356 pp. 

Prose for Borges. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974. 419 pp. 

Edgardo Cozarinsky. Borges y el cine. Buenos Aires: Sur, 1974. 134 pp.

 

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