C. W. W.
author of Relativity and Robinson, 1938
author of Relativity and Robinson, 1938
character in Wells's The Shape of Things to Come
Kabbalah, Jewish mystic interpretations of the Scriptures, comprising the Sefer Yetsirah and the Zohar
Wilder novel, 1925
poem by Álvaro Melián Lanifur
street and neighborhood in Buenos Aires
Chinese monster which looks like a black-headed flying dog
horse which lives in the sea, mentioned in the Arabian Nights and other sources
Zorrilla, 1842.
Ipuche poem
book of watercolors of horses by Juan Carlos Castagnino, with preface by Borges, 1971
Lugones story in Las fuerzas extrañas
street in Buenos Aires
Lugones poem in Romances del Río Seco
character in Bustos Domecq story
18th century Spanish building on the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires
Gabinete negro, Max Jacob, 1922
point in Mar del Plata near Playa Chica
Cape Horn
Cape of Good Hope, southernmost point of Africa
Portuguese navigator, c. 1460-c. 1518, who discovered Brazil in 1500
street in Buenos Aires
Fishburn and Hughes: "A street in the centre of Buenos Aires, near Palermo, in what used to be a rough neighbourhood." (37)
ancestors of Borges, a family of early Spanish settlers in South America
priest who accompanied Mendoza at the time of the first foundation of Buenos Aires
Spanish explorer, 1528-1574, founder of Córdoba, Argentina
Cayol and de Bassi sainete with tangos, 1910
Miguel Torga short story
character in Dante's Paradiso
narrator and character in Güiraldes's Don Segundo Sombra
here a cat, but also the nickname of a tango musician
character in Bustos Domecq story
hot springs in the province of Mendoza
A Bergantin used as a Prison.
play
Spanish writer, 1741-1782
Portuguese literary periodical, founded in 1940 by Tomás Kim
Argentine poet and tango songwriter (1900-1999)
port city in southern Spain
early English poet, fl. 670, known for being inspired by his dreams
one of Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms
city in Normandy, France
village in Wales associated with Arthurian legend
Shaw play, 1901
cafe in Madrid
old cafe in Montevideo, at Rambla 25 de agosto and Colón
cafe in downtown Geneva, here apparently the title of a text by Maurice Abramowicz
cafe in Paris, on the Rue de l'Ancienne Comédie
old cafe and restaurant near the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires
site of battle in Uruguay in 1839 between the Uruguayan forces of Rivera and the army of Juan Manuel de Rosas
Fishburn and Hughes: "A battle in 1839 between the Uruguayans, led by Fructuoso Rivera, and the invading Federalist forces of Juan Manuel Rosas under the command of Urquiza. Urquiza was defeated and his forces were temporarily pushed back into Entre Ríos." (37)
pseud. of Giuseppe Balsamo, Italian alchemist, adventurer, physician and impostor, 1743-95
Gide
Swiss-born Argentine writer, 1902-1975
city in south central France
Argentine literary critic, b. 1910, author of studies of Benito Lynch, gauchesque poetry, Bécquer and other topics, and compiler of an anthology of Spanish American poetry
French intellectual, 1913-1978, lived in Argentina during the Second World War
brother and slayer of Abel in the Bible
Fishburn and Hughes: "The first murderer in the Bible, the son of Adam and Eve, who killed his brother Abel out of jealousy and was cursed by God (Genesis 4:8-10)." (37)
Zorilla, 1842.
US novelist and journalist, 1892-1977.
capital of Egypt
Fishburn and Hughes: "The capital of Egypt, situated on the right bank of the Nile about twelve miles from the apex of its delta. Founded by the Arabs in 641-2, it is famous for its mosques, of which Amr is the oldest." (37-38)
city in Illinois
Argentine printmaker associated with the Instituto Argentino de Artes Gráficas and with Solidaridad Social
cicle of poems by Walt Whitman
Argentine writer, 1901-1978
Silva Valdes poem
victim of the Argentine judicial system defended by Gerchunoff
city near Zaragoza, Spain
Indian group of northern Argentina
Girondo book of poems, 1925
Calcutta, city in India
Fishburn and Hughes: "The largest city in India, and the capital of West Bengal. Calcutta was the capital of India under the British between 1833 and 1912." (38)
Calcutta newspaper founded in 1821
Fishburn and Hughes: "The London supplement of The Englishman Extraordinary, published in Calcutta 17 March 1838 - 13 April 1839." (38)
quarterly review, founded in 1844
Fishburn and Hughes: "A quarterly review published by the University of Calcutta, 1846-1945." (38)
lower region of Mesopotamia
Spanish playwright, 1600-81, author of La vida es sueño and countless other plays
US writer, 1903-87, author of Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre and other works
ranch in Borges story "El Congreso"
Zorrilla, 1845.
Argentine Indian leader, d. 1873, subject of a novel by Estanislao Zeballos
city in Colombia
character in Shakespeare's Tempest
Browning poem in Dramatis Personae, 1864
Khozikode, city in northern part of Kerala state, India, known as the City of Spices
Vilaseco
state in western United States
town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina
here a reference to the university campus in Berkeley, California
nickname of Caius Caesar Germanicus, Roman emperor, 12-41
translation of the Pancatantra, a Sanskrit collection of moral fables, made for Alfonso X el Sabio, known in Arabic as Kalila wa Dimna
Calypso, nymph, daughter of Atlas, who figures as a character in the Odyssey
London novel, 1903
street in Buenos Aires
Street in Buenos Aires.
street in La Plata
Street in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay.
Street in Buenos Aires
Lange book of poems, 1925
Former street of the city of Montevideo, Uruguay
A long street in Buenos Aires
Borges poem in Fervor de Buenos Aires
Apollinaire visual poems, 1918
Italian philosopher, 1904-86, author of Estetica, semantica, istorica and many other works, active in anti-fascist movements in Italy
Argentine poet, 1890-1923, author of Humanamente, 1918
Roman noblewoman, wife of Julius Caesar
Fishburn and Hughes: "The third wife of Julius Caesar, whom he married in 59 BC." (38)
Calvary, place of the crucifixion
Jean Calvinus or Cauvin, Swiss religious leader, 1509-64, author of Institution de la religion chrétienne and many other works
Italian writer, born in Cuba, 1923-85
story by Menén Desleal
Argentine writer, 1883-1915, author of Pedagogia social and El diletantismo sentimental
See House of Commons
Portuguese author of Viagens em Marrocos, 1876
street in Buenos Aires
minor character in Bustos Domecq story
Spanish humorist, 1882-1962, author of La rana viajera and other works
Argentine woman married to Ramón Blanco and then to Diego de Alvear, owner of a quinta in the Calle 11 de septiembre, Belgrano, Buenos Aires
Fishburn and Hughes: "A fictitious name composed of the surname of a prominent Argentine novelist, Eugenio Cambaceres (1843-1888), and Elvira de Alvear, with whom Borges was said to have been in love in his youth. The Alvear ‘palace’ was, indeed, situated in Calle 11 de Septiembre 1240." (38-39)
Discepolo tango
Argentine poet and dramatist, 1908-96, author of El problema de las generaciones literarias
city in England, site of Cambridge University
city in Massachusetts, site of Harvard University
here attributed to More, though the authors of the early editions were Trent, Erskine, Sherman and Van Doren; first published 1917-21
Ward and Waller, first published 1904-1916
city in New Jersey where Whitman lived
city in Ohio
editor of the apocryphal Deliciae Poetarum Borussiae, perhaps based on Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar, 1500-74
H. G. Wells novel, 1937
character in El curioso impertinente, the exemplary novel Cervantes included in the first part of Don Quijote
tango song
former name of Avenida Sáenz, street in Buenos Aires
Williams play, 1953
Argentine poet, 1877-1944, author of Chacayaleras, Chaquiras, El paisaje, el hombre y su canción and other works, mostly remembered for the poem El tango in Chaquiras
Miguel Alfredo D’Elia poem, awarded third prize in a 1929 contest
Luis Vaz de Camões, Portuguese poet and adventurer, 1524-80, author of the epic poem Os Lusíadas as well as sonnets and other lyrics, sometimes written Camoens
El campamento Domineau, Pierre Mac Orlan novel, 1937
site of battle between Florence and Arezzo in 1289 in which Dante took part
nickname of a thug in Buenos Aires
Argentine magazine of the 1920s
tango by Flores and Linnig, c. 1925
Rey Escalona
Alain epigrams
Italian philosopher, 1568-1639, author of the Civitas Solis, De sensu rerum, De Monarchia Hispanica and other works
region of southern Italy
Spanish dictionary, 1891 and other editions
Irish sailor who came to the River Plate with the English forces in 1806-07, deserted, then worked with Artigas organizing naval forces to defend the River Plate estuary, also a tanner, d. 1832
South African poet, 1902-57, translator of Camões, Juan de la Cruz and Calderón, and author of Flowering Rifle, a book about the Spanish Civil War
Spanish professor of literature and philosophy, 1834-1902, author of Lecciones de calotecnia para un curso de principios generales de literatura y literatura española, 1879
Pereda Valdés poem
Carlos Vega book of poems, 1927
The father of the gauschesque poet Estanislao del Campo
Argentine poet, 1834-1880, author of Fausto and other poems
Gauchesque poetry book by Miguel Domingo Etchebarne
Elysian Fields of classical mythology
Mexican writer, 1876-1945, author of El folklore y la musica mexicana
Italian nobleman, Ghibelline leader of Verona and protector of Dante, who wrote him a famous letter about the Divina Commedia
country in North America
town in province of Santa Fe near Rosario
place in the province of Buenos Aires, site of 1820 battle between Unitarios and Federales
English Channel
Argentine poet and essayist, 1897-1982, author of Ensayo sobre la expresión popular artística en Santiago del Estero, Proposiciones en torno al problema de una cultura nacional argentina and other works, here ridiculed as Padre Feijoo Canal, author of Tratado del epíteto en la Cuenca del Plata
milonga, perhaps the early anonymous milonga "La canaria de Canelones"
Canary Islands, Spanish territory off the coast of west Africa
Uruguayan tango composer, violinist and director, 1888-1964.
Van Dine mystery, 1927
US critic, teacher and editor, 1878-1961
Canción de odio, Guerra Junqueiro poem
Argentine dramatist, novelist and short-story writer, 1892-1957
a crab that bit Herakles's ankle during his battle with the Hydra, now a zodiac sign
Cerberus, monstrous dog that guards the underworld in classical mythology
site of battle in Chile in 1818 in which San Martin was defeated by the Spanish forces
Rodrigo Caro poem
Silva Valdés poem in Poemas nativos
poem by Ildefonso Pereda Valdés
Darío poem in Cantos de vida y esperanza, 1905
from Rafael Jijena Sánchez’s book of poems Achalay
Carriego posthumous book of poems, 1913
Atli
poem from Idelfonso Pereda’s book Música y acero
collection of Galician-Portuguese lyric, end of the 13th century, in the library of the Ajuda Palace in Lisbon
Cancionero General, collection of Portuguese lyric published in 1516 by Garcia de Resende
Aragonese anthology that includes Quesillos y requesones, 1721
Ventura Lynch, 1925, revised edition of his book La Provincia de Buenos Aires hasta la definición de la cuestión capital de la República
Jorge Furt work in 2 vols., 1923-25
collection of medieval Portuguese lyric, also known as the Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional
Canciones de la tarde, João de Lemos, 1875
Eugenio de Castro poems
Cansinos Assens "psalmos," 1914
street in Buenos Aires
character in Hudson's Purple Land
Spanish bandit, 1804-1837
Shaw heroine, protagonist of Candida
Voltaire philosophical romance, 1759
character in Voltaire's Candide
Argentine writer, 1897-1957
Argentine writer and journalist, 1851-1905, author of Juvenilia and other works
city in Uruguay near Montevideo
city in Peru near Ayacucho
Street in Buenos Aires
nickname used by Bustos Domecq
seaside boulevard in Marseille
Fishburn and Hughes: "One of the busiest streets of Marseilles, running from the old port to the central Boulevard de la Madeleine." (39)
Dadaist magazine, edited by Francis Picabia in 1920
avenue in Buenos Aires named for George Canning, British foreign secretary, now renamed Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz
avenue in Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires
Tibetan Buddhist prayers
Spanish poet, novelist, translator and critic, 1883-1964
Carriego poem
Antonio D. Lussich's poem
in Bible, Song of Songs
cathedral city in southern England
Chaucer poem, written c.1387-1400
Frank Ernest Hill translation of Chaucer poem into modern English
João Ruiz de Castelo Branco poem from the Cancioneiro Geral
brief poems written in medieval Galician and Portuguese
called here Cantares de amor, poems in medieval Galician-Portuguese on the theme of love
collection of medieval songs compiled during the reign of Alfonso X el Sabio.
Darío poem for the Argentine centenary of 1910, collected in Canto a la Argentina y otros poemas, 1914
Ildefonso Pereda Valdés poem
Fernán Silva Valdés poem in the book Poemas Nativos
Ildefonso Pereda Valdés poem
Lugones poem in El libro fiel
Darío book of poems, 1907
Pérez Zelaschi, poetry, 1975.
Borges translation of a poem by Maurice Abramowicz published under the pseudonym Maurice Claude
Lugones poem in Poemas solariegos
Argentine novelist, journalist and translator, 1919-1994, author of El muro de mármol, El retrato de la imagen and other works, object of Borges's love in the 1940s and the model for Beatriz Viterbo in El Aleph
Fishburn and Hughes: "A novelist with whom Borges had an emotional relationship at the time of writing 'The Aleph'. See Beatriz Viterbo." (39)
Guangzhou, city in southern China
Fishburn and Hughes: "The largest city of southern China, situated at the delta of inland rivers flowing into the South China Sea. After contact with Hindu and Arab traders in the tenth century it grew vastly in size and became the first Chinese port to be visited regularly by European merchants." (39)
Tango song written by Enrique Cardícamo.
German mathematician, 1845-1918, known for his work on set theory and transfinite numbers
Pound poem series, ultimately 120 poems, 1930-1969
Pérez Zelaschi, poetry, 1944.
Darío book of poems, 1905
Rodríguez Marín collection in 5 vols., 1882-83
Italian historian and politician, 1804-1895, author of a universal history in many volumes
settlement in state of Bahia in northeastern Brazil where Antonio Maciel the "Conselheiro" lived with his followers
Fishburn and Hughes: "see Antonio Conselheiro" (39)
town in province of Buenos Aires
Xose María Cao Luaces, 1862-1918, caricaturist who directed Caras y Caretas, here illustrator of Loomis's Catre
chaos, the unformed universe in Greek mythology
Rodolfo Wilcock’s work, 1960.
Argentine poet and essayist, 1889-1967, author of Melpomene, La fiesta del mundo and other works
Czech writer, 1890-1938
Latin encyclopedist, 5th century A.D., author of De Nuptiis
Fishburn and Hughes: "see Satyricon". (40)
German classical philologist, 1871-1961, author of Die griechische Philosophie, 1922, Das alten Germanien, 1937, and other works
town in the Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina
chapel established in 1725 in what is now the city of Rosario, Argentina
Sixtine Chapel in Vatican
the Green Chapel in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Fishburn and Hughes: "The name commonly given to Buenos Aires, the capital of the Argentine Republic. Its inhabitants are known as porteños, or people of the port." (40)
river in the Luján delta in Tigre
character in Bustos Domecq story
hill in Rome where the temple of Jupiter was located
Alfonso Reyes essays, 1939 and 1945
US gangster, born in Italy, 1899-1947
character in Bustos Domecq story
“Las tapas eran con prójimas desnudas y de todos colores, y llevaban por título El jardín perfumado, El espión chino, El hermafrodita de Antonio Panormitano, Kama-Sutra y/o Ananga-Ranga, Las capotas melancólicas, las obras de Elefantis y las del Arzobispo de Benevento." It may refer to some kind of rude joke: the “capotas melancólicas” could be considered as a synonym of “taciturn condoms”. (Mentioned in Bustos Domecq story.)
US novelist, 1924-85, author of In Cold Blood
series of 80 aquatints by Francisco de Goya, 1797-98
Shaw play, 1900
Colonel Jack, Defoe, 1722
Capitán Nicolás, Walpole, 1934
Defoe novel, 1720
Phillpotts, novel, 1933.
Short story be Bloy, published in Histoires désobligeantes (1894).
Los cautivos, Joseph Kessel novel, 1926
hotel in Montevideo
early anonymous milonga
Argentine dramatist, friend of Carriego
book by Francisco Villamil, 1933
Argentine lawyer and poet, 1898-1989, one of the editors of Proa
river in Uruguay
Fishburn and Hughes: "A tributary of the Tacuarembó river in north-west Uruguay." (40)
Argentine magazine, 1898-1982
family of early Spanish settlers in Argentina
hunter and gaucho in Antelo
mentioned in Borges-Bioy filmscript
priest, character in Bustos Domecq stories
book by Marcos Leibovich
Argentine lawyer and writer, 1860-1946
Carcassonne, walled city in southern France
Dunsany story
Piranesi engravings
character in Bustos Domecq story
city in southern Wales
landowner in Tacuarembó, character in Borges story
character in Borges story
gaucho outlaw and knife-fighter, nicknamed Calandria
Fishburn and Hughes: "A region in the province of Buenos Aires. See Eusebio Laprida." (40)
Italian poet and critic, 1835-1907
Charybdis, whirlpool in a narrow channel of the sea, an obstacle in the Odyssey
Caribbean Sea
Anglada book, 1939
Emily Dickinson's dog
Charlemagne, Frankish emperor, 742-814
street in Buenos Aires named for the Argentine historian and political figure, 1824-1906
Charles II of France, 823-77
character in Francisco Ayala's El hechizado, 1944
Carlos Zubillaga book, 1976
Charles I , English king, 1600-49, overthrown and beheaded in English Revolution
English king, 1630-85
Palatine prince
emperor of Spain and of the Holy Roman Empire, 1500-58
Swedish king, 1682-1718
Thomas Carlyle's brother, 1801-1879, translator of Dante
British essayist and historian, 1795-1881, author of Sartor Resartus, The French Revolution, On Heroes and many other works
Prosper Merimée novel, 1845, and Georges Bizet opera, 1875, about a Spanish gypsy woman
Fishburn and Hughes: "The main character of an opera by Bizet, which was first produced in 1875, with a libretto by Meilhac and Halévy based on a novel by Prosper Mérimée. Its melodramatic plot of love and death, gypsies, soldiers and toreadors creates what seems a typically Spanish ambience." (40)
town in the province of Buenos Aires
Lactantius work on the phoenix
city in the province of Buenos Aires
character in the Libro de buen amor
collection of Alain epigrams
Anglada naturalist novel, 1914
pseud. of Dale Breckenridge Carnegey, 1888-1955, author of bestselling How to Win Friends and Influence People, 1936, as well as of biography of Lincoln
character in Bustos Domecq story
Anglada nativist novel, 1931, also called La libreta de un gaucho
Argentine poet included in the Exposición de la actual poesía argentina
Argentinian tango composer and director, 1899-1980.
Spanish poet, 1573-1647, author of Canción a las ruinas de Itálica
Cullen anthology of African American poetry, 1927
Charon, the ferryman across the Styx
German novelist and poet, 1878-1956; his 1937 book is Der Arzt Gion: eine Erzählung
town in Switzerland near Geneva
Italian painter, 1472-1526
Carpathian mountains in central Europe
Fishburn and Hughes: "A mountain range in eastern Europe.
A 'war in the Carpathians' cannot be precisely located. The area is closely associated with Jewish pogroms and has a tenuous historical connection with Hasidism, the Baal Shem Tov having gone into retreat there for a period." (40-41)
English writer and social reformer, 1844-1929, early homosexual activist
French boxer, 1894-1975
Alexandrian Gnostic philosopher, 2nd century
US writer, 1906-77, prolific author of crime fiction under Carter Dickson and various other pseudonyms
Earl of Somerset, c. 1590-1645
Italian futurist painter, 1881-1966
detective in works of Ernest Bramah
street in Buenos Aires
character in Don Quijote, student, who eventually defeats the hero in battle, sometimes called El Bachiller
Ecuadoran poet and historian, 1903-1978
Tango written by Ángel G. Villoldo.
Ipuche
Enrique Amorim novel, 1929
Silva Valdés poem in Poemas nativos
former name of a square in Buenos Aires
family of the poet
Argentine poet, 1883-1912, author of El alma del suburbio, Las misas herejes and other works, subject of a 1930 Borges study.
the poet's grandfather, author of Páginas olvidadas, 1895
Evaristo Carriego's brother
river in Castile, next to which the Cid fought a battle
Argentine specialist in oral poetry, 1895-1967
pseudonym of mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English writer, 1832-1898, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Sylvie and Bruno and other works
Horacio Rega Molina poem
Main work of jesuit priest Francisco Javier Iturri. It was written as a response to the Historia de América (1797) by spanish writer Juan Bautista Muñoz.
city in southeastern Spain
city on Caribbean coast of Colombia
Fishburn and Hughes: "The capital of a department in northern Colombia, a seaport on the Caribbean. Cartagena proclaimed its independence from Spain in 1811 and was reoccupied four years later. It did not become free until 1821, under the presidency of Bolívar." (41)
ancient Carthage, near Tunis
character in Borges story, based on legendary figure of the Wandering Jew
Letters sent by Mariquita Sánchez to Juan Bautista Alberdi. (1849)
Eça de Queiroz travel book, published posthumously in 1905
Cortázar story
Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, a 34 volume collection of letters from Jesuit missionaries, published 1702 to 1776
Cascales, 1638
Ubalde
See Carr, John Dickson
detective, hero of numerous novels by John Coryell
Italian operatic tenor, 1873-1921
Portuguese poet, 1920-1984
English author and translator, 1772-1844, translator of Dante and Aristophanes
Mujica Láinez story
in Lomas in Buenos Aires
Borges story, 1947
former convent in the center of Buenos Aires
art association in Bustos Domecq stories
religious association in Bustos Domecq stories
optician in Suárez Lynch novella
Argentine government house on the Plaza de Mayo
Cortázar story, first published by Borges in Los Anales de Buenos Aires, later included in Bestiario
poem by Ernesto López-Parra
Spanish count
Casa Witcomb was a gallery and photography business founded by the celebrated Argentine photographer Alejandro S. Witcomb (1835-1905). Casa Witcomb remained opened almost 90 years from 1880 to 1970.
Cuban poet, 1863-1893
Uruguayan poet and critic. Author of Exposición de la poesía uruguay desde su origen hasta 1940
Cervantes exemplary novel
A poem by Evaristo Carriego
Carriego poem in La cancion del barrio
Cassandra, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, prophetess
Italian adventurer and writer, 1725-98, author of a famous book of memoirs of his erotic adventures
Banchs book of poems, 1909
Spanish historian and critic, 1564-1642
Dickson Carr, novel, 1941.
Gardner mystery, 1937
Gardner mystery, 1950
Gardner mystery, 1955
Gardner mystery, 1954
Gardner mystery, 1936
town near Buenos Aires, site of decisive battle in 1852 in which Rosas was defeated
street in Buenos Aires
Fishburn and Hughes: "A street in southern Buenos Aires, near Plaza Constitución A firm of lawyers having offices here, rather than in the vicinity of Tribunales (the Law Courts), implies that it is relatively obscure." (42)
character in Borges story
town in the province of Buenos Aires
Italian scholar, 1859-1917, editor of Dante and author of works on Italian metrics, Tasso, Garibaldi and other subjects
Van Dine crime novel, 1935
Cassio, character in Shakespeare's Othello
supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia
Poe story, 1846
mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts, 1920
Pérez Zelaschi, detective novel, 1966.
Vec Makropulos, Capek novel later adapted as an opera by Janacek
pseud. of Alejandro Rodríguez Alvarez, 1903-65, Spanish
playwright and poet
Caspian Sea, bounded by Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Khazakhstan
scene designer
French literary scholar, 1897-1986, author of Panorama de la littérature espagnole contemporaine
Argentine painter and architect, 1908-72
Jaimes Freyre book of poems, 1899
Franciscan friar and political figure, 1776-1832, represented in Capdevila's La santa furia del padre Castañeda
French mathematician, priest and inventor, 1688-1757, author of Optique des couleurs, a treatise on the melody of colors, and inventor of an ocular harpsichord
João Ruiz de Castelo Branco, fifteenth-century Portuguese poet, author of the cantiga Partindo-se
Spanish essayist and novelist, 1832-99
place of origin of Sangiacomo family, perhaps Castellammare del Golfo in Sicily
Costa Alvarez, 1928
Argentine poet and dramatist, 1861-1932, author of El borracho, El Nuevo Eden, La leyenda argentina and other works
Uruguayan-born Argentine writer, 1893-1980, author of numerous works on working class life
Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo-Branco, Portuguese writer, 1826-1890
Argentine physician and medical researcher, 1886-1968
Portuguese writer, 1800-1875
Castile, region in central and northern Spain
Spanish poet, c. 1491-1550, author of Contra los que dejan los metros castellanos y siguen los italianos
doctor of the Sangiacomo family, character in Bustos Domecq story
Excerpt from Jacques le Fataliste (1769) by Diderot.
Argentine politician, 1873-1944, president in 1942-43
Greek mythological hero, twin of Pollux
minor character in Borges-Bioy filmscript
tragedy by Antonio Ferreira, 1587, about Inês de Castro
Spanish critic and historian, 1885-1972, author of El pensamiento de Cervantes, La realidad histórica de España, La peculiaridad lingüística rioplatense y su sentido histórico and other works
Portuguese writer, 1869-1944
author of Vocabulario y frases de Martin Fierro, 1950
Galician noblewoman, 1325-55, best known as the beloved of King
Pedro I of Portugal
Portuguese writer, 1898-1974
Buenos Aires knife-fighter
name taken by the Tichborne Claimant during his residence in Australia
Williams play, 1955
former convent in central part of Buenos Aires
Catalonia or Catalunya, autonomous region in eastern Spain
province in northern Argentina
street in Buenos Aires
Bibiloni poems
cathedral of Buenos Aires, on the Plaza de Mayo
the cathedral in Geneva
Aristotle work on logic
English forester in the time of Richard III
China
Czinner film, 1933
one of the characters created by Niní Marshall, 1904-1996, Argentine comic actress
African mammal whose eyes cause death, according to Pliny
Marcus Porcius Cato, Roman philosopher, 95-46 B.C.
Loomis book, 1914
Patagonian Indian leader, d. 1874
Fishburn and Hughes: "An Indian chieftain, who fought against the Indians on the side of the Argentine national government, leading his 800 men into battle against the invading Chilean Indians under their cacique Calfucurá. Some years later he fought on the side of the revolutionary forces. He was taken captive and handed over to loyalist Indians, who stabbed him to death." (42)
Italian philosopher and politician, 1801-1869, author of Storia della Rivoluzione del 1848 and Archivio triennale delle cose d'Italia and editor of Il Politecnico
Gaius Valerius Catullus, Roman poet, c. 84-54
river and region in Colombia
the Caucasus region
novel by Jorge Guillermo Borges, 1921
Pseudonym of Christopher St. John Sprigg, 1907-1937, British Marxist writer and poet, author of Illusion and Reality and Studies in a Dying Culture
Gnostic heaven of heavens
character in Borges story
Echeverria poem in Rimas, 1837
Frank Lloyd film, 1933, starring Clive Brook, based on a play by Noël Coward
Italian poet and philosopher, c.1255-1300
Italian mathematician and scientist, 1598-1647, student of Galileo, author of Geometria individibilus continuorum nova quadum ratione promota, 1635
Fishburn and Hughes: "An Italian mathematician, a disciple of Galileo, whose work in geometry was fundamental to the development of integral calculus. Cavalieri expounded his geometry of indivisibles in A Certain Method for the Development of a New Geometry of Continuous Indivisibility (1635), a work that provoked much criticism at the time." (42-43)
Mascagni opera, 1890
Cawdor, area in Scotland of which Macbeth was thane
figure in proverb
Mujica Láinez story
Menén Desleal story
French literary historian and English scholar, 1877-1965, co-author with Emile Legouis of a history of English literature
Victor Hugo poem, 1855
Valery Larbaud essay, 1925
French naturalist novelist, 1851-1924
Jorge Luis Borges' conference published in Siete noches
Spanish critic and historian, 1864-1927, author of Fraseologia y estilistica castellana, Tesoro de la lengua castellana, Historia de la lengua y literatura castellana and other works
Twain story, 1865
An argentine poet and tango songwriter (1896-1947).
Forster collection of stories, 1911
Fernando de Rojas dialogue novel, 1499
pope and saint, born Pietro Angeleri di Murrone, 1215-96
Text written by Alejandro Margariño Cervantes. It was published in 1852
Pilar de Lusarreta, 1935.
French physician and novelist, 1894-1961, author of Voyage au bout de la nuit and Mort à credit
Fishburn and Hughes: "A French writer, best known for his provocative novel Journey to the End of Night (1934) which portrays French life during and after World War I. Its profane tone and obscenity were regarded as offensive. A supporter of fascist doctrines, Céline also wrote an anti-semitic work entitled Bagatelles pour un massacre." (42)
Essay by Bloy, 1908.
town in France near Bourges
Italian artist and writer, 1500-71, author of famous autobiography
Cervantes exemplary novel
local priest in Baldomero Fernández Moreno poem
Yeats book of folk tales, 1893
in Buenos Aires
in Buenos Aires
Ibarra translation of Valéry poem
Cena de las cenizas, Bruno work on the Copernican theory, 1584
Güiraldes book of poems, 1915
pseud. of Frédéric Louis Sauser, French-Swiss novelist and poet, 1887-1961
in Greek mythology, a race of creatures, half-horse, half-man
park in Buenos Aires
center of Buenos Aires
Murena’s collection of short stories, 1956.
street in Buenos Aires, now called Pueyrredon
The central geographic region of the Americas.
Watson book on vigilantes, gangsters and other gunmen, 1931
place in the province of Buenos Aires, site of battle in 1859 between Urquiza and Mitre
Fishburn and Hughes: "A site north west of Buenos Aires where the Confederation forces under Urquiza defeated the porteño Mitre on 23 October 1859, forcing the province of Buenos Aires to abandon its autonomy and become part of the Argentine Confederation." (43)
Middle East, see also Medio Oriente
Menén Desleal story
US writer and publisher, 1898-1971, known as humorist, anthologist, and founder of Random House
Cerinthus, gnostic thinker, fl. c. 100 AD, considered a heresiarch by the early Church
magazine edited by Carlos Anglada, 1924-1927
hill by harbor in Montevideo
site of battle in 1823 in Peru between Spanish and independence forces
site of battle in independence wars in Peru
mountain near Bariloche
park in Mendoza with monument to San Martín and the independence forces
mountain near Bariloche
town in Uruguay
Fishburn and Hughes: "A department in north-east Uruguay near the frontier with Brazil." (43)
mountain near Bariloche
mountain mentioned in Borges-Bioy story
Uruguayan battlefield
Wolff book, apparently apocryphal
magazine
Spanish writer, 1547-1616, author of Don Quijote, the Entremeses, the Novelas ejemplares, Persiles y Segismunda, the Galatea and other works
book by Andalusian priest Sbarbi
street in Buenos Aires
title used in a general sense
Fishburn and Hughes: "The cognomen of Caius Julius Caesar and hence the title given to Roman emperors. The Caesar referred to is probably Diocletian. See Alexandria." (37)
Greek king in the Widsith
Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman emperor, 100-44, author of De Bello Gallico and De Bello Civili
Italian poet and critic, 1730-1808, translator of Ossian and Homer
Town in France. See Sète
Sá-Carneiro poems, 1915
Spanish enclave in northenr Morocco
Street in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ceylon or Sri Lanka
French painter, 1839-1906
Chinese prince
two-headed monster in China
place in China where the inhabitants have human heads, bat wings and bird's beaks
Taoist monk, 1208-1288, author of A Mission to Heaven: A Great Chinese Epic and Allegory.
master in Zen fable
decisive battle in the independence of Chile, 1817
Fishburn and Hughes: "The sight of a battle fought on 12 February 1817, sixty miles north of Santiago, where San Martín, commanding the Army of the Andes, defeated the Royal forces led by Francisco Marco del Pont, the Governor of Chile. San Martín then acquired a base on the Pacific, from which he later fought for Peru." (44)
town in the province of Buenos Aires
park in Buenos Aires
street in Buenos Aires
poem by Ricardo Güiraldes
cementery in Buenos Aires and surrounding neighborhood
Fishburn and Hughes: "A district of Buenos Aires with a cemetery of the same name. The cemetery, lessimposing than 'La Recoleta', where the élite Argentine families (including Borges's) havetheir mausolea, was opened during the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1871." (44)
semi-arid region in Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina
home of Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, the hero of Argentine independence, where José Hernández was born
Argentine monthly magazine published since 1930
Fishburn and Hughes: "An agricultural monthly published in Argentina since November 1930." (44)
Argentine artist, wife of the architect Léon Dourge
Austrian-born artist, 1898-1954, resident in Argentina from 1934 until her death
town in France
Bengali poet and critic, 1901-1986
Joyce poems, 1907
British politician, 1836-1914, dominant figure in the Liberal Party, photographed famously wearing a monocle
biographer of Coleridge, 1866-1956
Noël Bouton, French officer and nobleman, recipient of the Lettres portugaises of Mariana Alcofarado
mountain in the Sierras de Córdoba, 2790 meters
Conrad novel, 1914
British-American novelist and screenwriter (1888-1959). Famous for his detective and crime fiction.
Itinerant astrologer (1821-1903). For some critics he was probably Jack London´s father.
6th century Chinese painter
place in the province of La Pampa
overseer of a ranch in Tordillo, character in Hidalgo's Dialogos patrioticos
French medieval epic poem
Apollinaire poem
Gloria Alcorta poem
Maurice Abramowicz poem translated by Borges, signed with the pseudonym Maurice Claude
French nobleman who was the supposed recipient of Mariana Alcoforado's love letters, the Lettres portugaises, though his name is elsewhere given as Noël Bouton
Hugo book of poems, 1835
French ambassador to Sweden during the reign of Queen Christina, correspondent of Descartes
English film actor, director, producer and writer, 1889-1977
daughter of Eugene O'Neill, wife of Charlie Chaplin, 1926-91
English playwright, scholar and translator, c. 1559-1634, best known for his translations of Homer
Stevenson essay
Camino book of poems, 1926, which contains the poem "Tango"
Leibniz
province in Bolivia
street in Buenos Aires, now renamed in part Marcelo T. de Alvear
pseudonym of Jacques Boitelleau, French writer, 1884-1968
Chesterton, 1942
river in Boston and Cambridge
city in North Carolina
street in Buenos Aires
section of Berlin around Charlottenburg Palace
city in Virginia where the University of Virginia is located
fourteen year old girl who participated in a school anthology published in Oxford in 1938
Baudelaire poem
cathedral city near Paris
city in province of Buenos Aires
US economist and engineer, 1888-1985, whose writings include topics in general semantics
Buber collection of tales of the Hasidim, 1927
French writer, 1768-1848, author of Atala and Le Genie du Christianisme
English poet and forger, 1752-70
Chesterton, 1932
English poet, c.1340-1400, author of the Canterbury Tales and other works
Hugo poem
street in Buenos Aires
Mallea novel, 1953
Czechoslovakia, now divided in Slovakia and the Czech Republic
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Russian writer known for his short stories and plays, 1860-1904
English historian, rival of Gibbon
town in Gloucestershire, England
knife-fighter, rival of Ezequiel Tabares
French poet, 1762-94
Buscadores de oro, Pierre Hamp book, 1920
Angelus Silesius collection of some 1600 mystical poems, 1675
county in west central England
city in northern England
name used for Chesterton and Belloc's works in collaboration
English short-story writer, essayist, novelist, poet and journalist, 1874-1936, author of five volumes of Father Brown stories, The Man Who Was Thursday, The Man Who Knew Too Much, biographies of Blake, Dickens, Stevenson, Watts and countless other works
Los caballeros de la Tabla Redonda, Cocteau, 1937
Chinese monster
character in Bustos Domecq story
city in Illinois
Sandburg poem
newspaper in Chicago where Dreiser worked
Lugones poem in Romancero
subject of a story by Ricardo Sangiacomo
character in Borges-Levinson story
knife-fighter in Buenos Aires
character in Borges-Levinson story
city and state in northern Mexico
Argentine military officer, executed by Urquiza after the battle of Caseros, 1798-1852
book by Juan Carlos Welker
Stevenson poems for children, 1885
Byron poem
Phillpotts, 1923
Phillpotts, 1898
country in South America
Fishburn and Hughes: "Chile obtained its independence from Spanish colonial rule with the help of General San Martín who, in 1817, crossed the Andes with an army supplied and equipped by the Argentine government (see Army of the Andes). Chile in turn joined forces with San Martín in a military and naval effort to defeat the Spanish army in Peru." (46)
street in Buenos Aires
Fishburn and Hughes: "A street in the southern part of Buenos Aires, intersecting with Tacuarí some ten blocks from Plaza Constitución. Guayaquil: The autobiographical links between the narrator of 'Guayaquil' and Borges are emphasised in a roundabout way. The narrator lives in a street called Chile, Borges lived in a street called Maipú and both names are associated in the Argentine mind, since San Martín's great victory in Chile was the battle of Maipú." (46)
street in Buenos Aires
knife-fighter, character in early Borges story
pass in Alaska near Haines
country, sometimes Tsin, Imperio Central, Celeste Imperio, Sin
Fishburn and Hughes: "China see Germany, Lost Encyclopaedia, Luminous Dynasty, Mongols, Sin" (46)
Maurice Lachin, 1938
Willoughby-Meade, 1928
Lindsay, book of poems, 1917
Queen mystery novel
Hackmann, 1927
Richard Wilhelm, 1924.
Chinese admiral
widow and pirate in Borges story
poem by Héctor Pedro Blomberg
Commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.
Chinese unicorn
English cabinetmaker, 1718-1779
Cyprus
historical figure in a play by Echagüe
Italian painter, 1888-1978
Text written by Laurentino C. Mejías
Argentine sergeant who killed Juan Moreira, appears as a character in Borges stories
Chittaurgh, town in Rajasthan, India
town in the province of Buenos Aires
collection of Alain epigrams
Peruvian poet, 1875-1934, reference here is to the events in Chocano's life after he killed a political enemy Edwin Elmore and had to flee to Chile, where he was himself killed by a lunatic
Angel Villoldo tango, 1905
translator to French of a prayer from Annam
Polish composer, 1810-1849
Chinese dynasty, c. 1027-221 B. C.
French poet, fl. late 12th century, author of Yvain, Lancelot, Perceval and other works
Old English poem in the Exeter Book, attributed to Cynewulf
Old English poem in the Junius Manuscript
Coleridge poem, written 1797-1800, published in 1816
Erfjord
Argentine filmmaker active in Brazil, 1914-1999, director of a controversial adaptation of La intrusa
protagonist of Bunyan's The Pilgrim’s Progress
British detective writer, 1891-1976
Julien Green, 1930
Chesterton poem, 1896
Maugham novel, 1939
Stevenson essay in Across the Plains and Ethical Studies
Essay by Léon Bloy, 1890.
Charles Noyes and Edward Ainsworth study, 1943
Geoffrey of Monmouth, see Historia Regum Britanniae
"Holinshed" chronicles of the history of England, Scotland and Ireland by Holinshed, Harrison, Stonyhurst, Campion and others, 1577
Polish historical work of the 13th century
a history of the kingdom of Jerusalem from its foundation to 1229
Peter Chrysologus, saint and doctor of the Church, 406-450
Chinese prince in the Analects of Confucius
Zhuangzi, Chinese Taoist writer, c. 369-c. 286
Giles study, 1889
province in southern Argentina
gaucho soldier in the forces of Lopez Jordan
English religious figure and writer, 1815-90
Fishburn and Hughes: "An English clergyman and writer, Dean of St Paul's from 1871 to 1890. Church was the author of two monographs in the 'English Men of Letters' series, on Bacon and Spenser." (47)
British prime minister, political figure and writer, 1874-1965
French translator
character in Dickens novel
character in Dickens novel The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1843
Wu Ch'eng-en, author of classic Chinese novel Journey to the West or Monkey
great mother-goddess of Anatolia
Argentine writer and musician, one of a series of adolescent authors of short stories in an anthology with a Borges preface, 1965, later a composer
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and politician, 106-43, author of De divinatione, De natura deorum, De fato, In Pisonem and many other works
the Cyclops, one-eyed monsters of classical myth
Spanish medieval epic poem
Ruy Diaz de Vivar, Spanish hero, 1040-99, subject of El cantar del mio Cid
Eça de Queiroz novel, 1901
René Daumal poems, part of Le Contre-Ciel, 1936
Poem by Hilario Ascasubi
Poem by Hilario Ascasubi
Bartolomé Hidalgo poems
poem by Wilhelm Klemm, from the expressionist magazine Die Aktion, 1918
Chinese monster, a fish with a hundred heads, born of invective
Menéndez y Pelayo anthology, 1910
Chinese monsters of the darkness
According to the Antología de la literatura fantástica and Cuentos breves y extraordinarios tale by Liehtsé.
Short story from Chinese Ghouls and Goblins by G. Willoughby-Meade.
Borges book of poetry, 1981.
Balcarce
Ferber novel, 1936
Valéry poem, 1920
intersection in Buenos Aires
Swiss writer, 1883-1954
Paris restaurant in Bustos Domecq story
Sintra, town in Portugal
Argentine who wrote on various topics, from Argentine history to law to the use of the comma, as well as the book of poems Latidos de esperanza
sorceress in Greek myth
Family Circus lead by José Juan Podestá
Murena’s book of poetry, 1958.
boxing club in Bustos Domecq stories
Carlos Grünberg poem
Warren collection of stories, 1947
Chaplin film, 1928
Spanish ultraist poet, 1901-1924, died of typhus
Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop and orator, c. 315-386, author of twenty-four catechetical lectures
Cyrus, Persian king, ruled 559-529
Marino and Cruz tango, 1926
Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, 1755-1829, last viceroy of the Virreinato del Río de la Plata
Welles film, 1941
D'Annunzio, 1898
town near La Plata in the province of Buenos Aires
Chaplin film, 1931
Burton travel book, 1861
poem by Werner Hahn, 1918
Baldomero Fernández Moreno’s book of poems, 1917
city in the Arabian Nights
in Borges story
Cape Town, South Africa
Mallea book of novellas, 1936
old section of Montevideo, Uruguay
Bustos Domecq, 1915
Buenos Aires suburb
Thoreau essay, 1849
Stein, 1962
Fishburn and Hughes: "CF 201: 'The City of God': St Augustine's main theological work. Written between 413 and 425, it consists of 22 books in which Christianity is presented as a growing civic system in the face ofthe decaying Roman Empire. With reference to the belief that events recur 'at the centuries' end', Borges has observed that several chapters of book 12 of Civitas Dei try to refute the theory of cyclical time (see Eternidad 81).
character in Collins's The Moonstone
French film director, 1898-1981
Work by Villiers de l'Isle Adam, 1867.
character in Borges story, Avelino Arredondo's fiancée
leftist publisher and magazine, important to the Boedo group
mass circulation daily newspaper in Buenos Aires, founded in 1945 by Roberto Noble
Silva Valdés poem in Poemas nativos
character in Hudson's Purple Land
coastal town in southern part of province of Buenos Aires, between Necochea and Bahía Blanca
Barbusse, 1919
series of great books published by W. W. Jackson in Buenos Aires in the 1940's, for which Borges wrote a preface to Dante
pseudonym of Maurice Abramowicz
French poet, dramatist and diplomat, 1868-1955
Claudius Claudianus, Alexandrian-Greek writer, d. 404, author of Latin panegyrics, invectives, epistyles, epigrams and an unfinished epic
Tiberius Claudius, Roman emperor, 10-54
Claudius, character in Shakespeare play Hamlet
Prussian general and writer, 1780-1831, author of Vom Kriege and other works
Russian princess turned madam, character in Bustos Domecq and Suarez Lynch stories, later married to Gervasio Montenegro
supposed Borges work, 1975
Ruiz
Santiago Ginzberg book of poems, 1923
series of novels by Arnold Bennett about the Clayhanger family, 1910-1918
English writer (1891-1961) , author of works such as Knight of the Knuckles (1940) and Sporting Rhapsody (1951) among others.
French political figure, 1841-1929, prime minister from 1906 to 1909 and from 1917 to 1920
Clement of Alexandria or Titus Flavius Clemens, Christian theologian and writer, c. 150-c. 200, author of the Protrepticus, Stromata and other works
Argentine librarian, b. 1918, editor of Borges's works in the 1950s, author of the Estética del lector and other works
housekeeper in Bustos Domecq story
Poe's cousin and wife, 1822-46
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopater, Egyptian queen, 69-30 BC
novel by French author Roman Rolland, 1920
illustrator of the 1894 edition of the Martin Fierro
US city in the state of Ohio
northern suburb of Paris
character in Corneille's L'Illusion comique
Ipuche poems
British statesman and general, 1725-1774, founder of the empire of British India
museum of medieval art in New York, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
character in H. G. Wells's Brynhild
French revolutionary politician of Prussian origin, 1755-1794, author of Adresse d'un Prussien à un Anglais, L'Orateur du genre humain and La République universelle
Work by American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) published in 1884.
princess of Burgundy and Frankish queen, wife of Clovis, married in 493
English poet, 1819-61, author of The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, Dipsychus, Amours de Voyage and Mari Magno
Frankish king, c. 466-511, also Chlodwig, Ludovico, Luis
Cummings poem, 1931
nightclub in Bustos Domecq story
Nigel Morland crime novel, 1936
supposed work by Nahum Cordovero on the immortals, 1948
Fishburn and Hughes: "see Nahum Cordovero" (48)
Argentine writer and journalist
British officer and political figure, 1775-1860, admiral in Royal Navy and then later officer with rebels in Brazil, Chile and Greece
Excerpt from Le cornet à dés by Max Jacob.
Elmer Rice play, 1928
Menén Desleal story
town in the Sierras de Córdoba
French poet, novelist and dramatist, 1889-1963, author of La Machine infernale, Les Parents terribles and numerous other works
Fernand Crommelynck play, 1921
Santiago Ginzberg posthumous book
the manuscript of the Elder Edda in the Royal Library in Copenhagen
Gothic Bible manuscript in Upsala
personification of envy
district attorney in Necochea, character in Bustos Domecq story
town near Buenos Aires
text by Maurice Abramowicz
Northumbrian pagan priest mentioned in Bede's history
university city in northern Portugal
French literary figure, 1892-1990, translator of Faulkner, Faulkner, Capote and a variety of other English-language authors, and also of Spanish writers including Valle-Inclán, Delibes and Sánchez Ferlosio
US film actress, born in France, 1905-1996
a volume published by an association of Borges's readers, 1985, with a Borges preface
school in Buenos Aires where students wrote stories for the anthology Cuentos originales
medieval Irish organization of poets
Royal College of Heraldry
selective high school in downtown Buenos Aires
Pierre Dominique novel, 1938
English poet and philosopher, 1772-1834, author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Dejection, Christabel, the Biographia Literaria and numerous other works
pseudonym of French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 1873-1954
Emilio Oribe book of poems
Argentine Indian chief, 1786-1871, colonel in the Argentine army, known as "el amigo indio de Los Toldos"
Buenos Aires theater
Chesterton, 1927.
Tagore collection, 1936
Italian condottiero, 1400-1475, known for his elaborate mortuary chapel
French scholar, co-editor with Tonnelat of an edition of the Nibelungenlied in 1944
English novelist, 1824-89, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White
Fishburn and Hughes: "An English novelist, known as the father of the detective story for his mastery of suspense and involved plots. Collins's fame was established by The Woman in White (1860), an intricate work employing for the first time the technique of different characters telling the story from their point of view." (49)
English landscape and genre painter (1788-1847). Father of the writer Wilkie Collins.
philanthropist
country
stock role in the commedia dell' arte, maid of the Innamorata and beloved of the Harlequin
Argentine neo-idealist artist, character in Bustos Domecq story
Cristoforo Colombo, Italian explorer, c. 1446-1506
La hija del coronel, Aldington novel, 1931
city in Uruguay
Mantiq-al-Tayr, Persian mystical poem by Farid ud-din Attar, sometimes called Asamblea de los pájaros
Cervantes exemplary novel
Countée Cullen, 1925
Lovecraft story, 1927
ranch in Borges story "La forma de la espada"
state in United States
tailor shop in Buenos Aires whose name refers to one of the wonders of the ancient world
Henry Miller book of travels in Greece, 1941
kingdom in the Caucasus, described by Herodotus
Argentine writer, 1912-2005, author of the Diccionario folklórico argentino, 1948, and other works on folklore and language
Irish writer, 1881-1972
Argentine cartoonist, 1891-1956, who worked at the Argentine Senate as a tachigrapher
one-volume encyclopedia edited by Clarke F. Ansley, 1935
in New York
Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, Latin writer on agriculture, author of De Re Rustica, written c. 60-66
Pillars of Hercules, mountains on either side of the Strait of Gibraltar
English critic and writer, 1845-1927
imaginary film of the Crucifixion set in the Argentine pampa, with the local comandante as Pontius Pilate
Ferber novel, 1935
Capek
Czech writer (1592-1670)
Julius Caesar, see De Bello Gallico
Fishburn and Hughes: "see Julius Caesar" (49)
St. Jerome
newspaper
Spanish ultraísta poet, later a translator
En seguida, señor, Dave Marlowe, 1937
Robert Graves, 1949
Wells, 1940
In the Antología de la literatura fantástica title given to a fragment of the fifth book of Pantagruel.
survey in El Hogar to which Borges responded in 1958
poem from Nydia Lamarque’s book Telarañas, 1925
verses by Góngora from his "De los que censuraron su Polifemo," 1615
survey in El Hogar to which Borges responded in 1956
Poem by Manuel Pinedo (Jorge Luis Borges's Pseudonym).
Poem by Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
Poem written by Fernán Silva Valdes.
Sonnet by Manuel Gil de Oto (Also Know As. Miguel Toledano de Escalante)
Borges-Bullrich anthology, 1945, with a second edition in 1968
Poem written by Jorge Luis Borges.
poem from Baldomero Fernández Moreno’s book Aldea española, 1925
Rashid ad-Din's history of the Mongols, including also summaries of the history of India, China and Europe
Izaak Walton, 1653, with later revised editions
Sandburg
Whitman
18th century Spanish periodical
family, characters in Faulkner novels
French philosopher, 1798-1857
Pérez Zelaschi, short stories.
Pérez Zelaschi, short stories.
Lima book of costumbrista sketches, 1908
English writer, 1859-1930, author of numerous stories about Sherlock Holmes as well as The Lost World, a History of Spiritualism and other works
street in Buenos Aires
city in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina
church and neighborhood in Buenos Aires
Fishburn and Hughes: "The Zahir: refers to an imposing church in Buenos Aires in Barrio Sur, in the proximity of Plaza Constitución. The Aleph: there are several parishes of this name in Buenos Aires, but the one referred to is probably that of the church mentioned above." (49)
Borges speech on being admitted to the Academia Argentina de Letras, 1962
Hall, 1960 and earlier editions
George Sampson, 1941
Zoega, 1910
town in Massachusetts
collection of fables by don Juan Manuel, completed in 1335
Spanish historian, 1765-1820, author of Historia de la dominación de los árabes en España
Louis II , prince of Condé, 1621-86
French nobleman who was a patron of philosophers
French philosopher, 1715-80, author of Essai sur l'origine des conaissances humaines, Traité des systemes, Traité des sensations and other works
La condición humana, Malraux novel, 1933
French mathematician and philosopher, 1743-94, author of Tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain
Confederacy, the slave states during the U. S. Civil War, sometimes called "estados del Sur"
Argentine confederation, the Federalist system of government in Argentina at the time of Rosas
Switzerland
Manuel Peyrou, Short story.
Musset, 1836
St. Augustine's spiritual autobiography
Taylor novel of India, 1839
Fishburn and Hughes: "A celebrated Chinese philosopher and moral teacher. Confucianism is a secular faith based on lofty ideals of goodness, justice, filial devotion and other virtues derived from the contemplation of man in society. Anyone who lives according to Confucian principles is carrying out the will of God and contributing to social harmony. The editing of the Lî Kî, or Book of Rites, has been mistakenly attributed to Confucius." (50)
Shand poem, 1947
De Quincey autobiographical work, 1822 and 1856
Graham Greene, novel, 1939.
Sá Carneiro novel, 1914
Almafuerte poem, 1904
traditional cafe in the Núñez neighborhood of Buenos Aires
traditional Buenos Aires cafe, now gone, at the corner of Rivadavia and Esmeralda
cafe in Buenos Aires across the street from the Congress building
Katibi of Nishapur's Majma'-ulbahrain or Confluence of the Two Seas
Work by Herbert Allen Gilles, 1915.
Confucius or Kung Fu-tzu, Chinese philosopher and politician, 551-479 B.C., author of the Annals of Lu, Spring and Autumn, and the Analects
river and two countries in west Africa
Belgian Congo, colonial name for what is now Zaire
solecism for Belgian Congo
congress building in Buenos Aires
secret world congress in Borges story
Uruguayan congress
Bustos Domecq text, no doubt celebrating the Congreso Eucarístico Internacional of 1934
Borges story
Argentine historian, 1886-1943, author of El gaucho
story from Eduardo González Lanuza´s book Aquelarre
Borges book of poetry and short prose, 1985
El prestidigitador, Walpole story, 1938
Irish king, d. 157 A.D.
Irish king, father of Conn
French magazine in the early twentieth century
Connacht, four county region in western Ireland that includes the cities of Galway and Sligo
state in United States
US playwright, 1890-1980, author of The Green Pastures
pseudonym of British chemist, 1880-1947, used to sign his crime fiction
pseudonym of Charles Gordon
literary review founded by Pierre Louys, ran for eleven issues in 1891, with contributions by Valery, Gide and others; Pierre Menard published two versions of the same sonnet here in 1899, eight years after the magazine disappeared
Fishburn and Hughes: "A literary review published in Paris from March 1891 to January 1892, also known as Anthologie des plus jeunes poètes. The issues of March and October 1899 must be fictitious." (50)
Los conquistadores, Malraux novel, 1928
Prescott history, 1843
Prescott history, 1847
Polish-English novelist, born Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857-1924, author of Victory, Chance, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Youth, The Shadow-Line, The Nigger of the "Narcissus," The Secret Agent and numerous other works
Fishburn and Hughes: "see José Korzeniovski" (50)
Konrad, German priest and writer, translator of the Chanson de Roland
Antonio Vicente Mendes Maciel, Brazilian messianic leader, d. 1897.
English painter, 1776-1837
novel by Mae West
Constantine the Great, Flavius Valerius Constantinus, Roman emperor, 288?-337
Constantinople or Istanbul, capital of Turkey, sometimes Estambul, Miklagard, Bizancio
Fishburn and Hughes: "The former capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, now Istanbul. In 553 Constantinople was the seat of a second Council which, among other dogmas, declared the divinity of Jesus and pronounced anathemas against all who opposed this creed." (50)
Konstanz or Constance, city in Germany near Swiss border
train station in Buenos Aires and the surrounding neighborhood
Argentine constitution
Muñagorri maid, character in Bustos Domecq story
quotation from Hamlet III.i
site of battle in medieval Ireland
Hugo collection of poems, 2 vols., 1856
Collection of short stories and nouvelles by Villiers de l'Isle Adam, 1883.
Collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant (1885).
Lucian dialogue
René Daumal poems, 1936
gaucho, character in Hidalgo poems
Toulet posthumous book of poems, 1921
Argentine tango composer and dramatist, 1888-1932, author of Mi noche triste, Bandaneón arrabalero and many other works
Mentiras convencionales de la civilización, Nordau, 1893
old monastery near Rosario, site of an early independence battle
Hovory s T. G. Masarykem, Capek's interviews with the president of Czechoslovakia, 1928-1935
Belloc, 1928
title of illustrated edition of Mir Bahadur Ali's The Approach to Al'Mu'tasim, subtitled A Game with Shifting Mirrors
Dante series of philosophical treatises, c. 1304-1308
character in Priestley novel
character in Priestley novel
Anglo-German scholar, 1904-1979, author of Buddhism, Its Essence and Development and The Buddha's Law among the Birds
Sandburg poem, 1915
US president, 1872-1933
US film actor, 1901-1961
US novelist, 1789-1851, author of The Prairie, The Last of the Mohicans, The Spy and other works
Lugones poem published in La Nación in 1935, included in section of Poesías diversas of his Obras poéticas completas
Lugones eclogue in Lunario sentimental
neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro
Copenhagen, capital of Denmark
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, 1473-1543, author of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
Manrique poem, 1476
Poem by Hilario Ascasubi
English writer, 1878-1957
Cullen book of poems, 1927
Argentine photographer and filmmaker, b. 1906, known for his photographs of Buenos Aires, including two that served as illustrations for the first edition of Evaristo Carriego
Hylton Cleaver, short story.
Vlady Kocianich novel, 1969
French poet, 1845-1874, author of Gens de mer
Corsica, French island in the Mediterranean
French woman, 1768-1793, murderer of Marat
Ipuche poem
section of Van Loon's The Arts, which uses a geological metaphor to map the greatness of artists
street in Buenos Aires
Fishburn and Hughes: "One of the main thoroughfares of northern Buenos Aires, containing the Biblioteca de la Municipalidad." (51)
city in Argentina, capital of the province of Córdoba
city in southern Spain
Argentine province
abbot of Rute, early defender of Góngora
Argentine writer of detective fiction under the pseudonym Jacinto Amenabar, author of El crimen de la noche de bodas
Argentine poet, journalist and art critic, 1901-1975
author of The Coat of Many Colours
pseud. of Mary Mackay, English novelist, 1864-1924
Epistle from Paul to the Corinthians, in the New Testament
Corinth, city in Greece
Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus, legendary Roman general, d. c. 490 B. C., subject of a play by Shakespeare
Shakespeare play, c. 1608
city in Ireland
French playwright, 1606-1684, author of Le Cid, L'Illusion comique and other works
Spanish playwright, author of A buen toro mejor buey
Max Jacob, 1916.
region of western England
region on North Island of New Zealand
Collection of poems written by different poets, 1849.
Saavedra Fajardo historical essay, 1646
Argentine poet and dramatist. (1850-1919)
avenue in Buenos Aires
Fishburn and Hughes: "Avenida Coronel Díaz: a street in the centre of Buenos Aires, near Palermo, which used to be one of the few paved roads in the area." (52)
Borges great-grandfather: see Suárez, Isidoro
Corona, Manuel Komroff novel, 1930
French painter, 1796-1875
Milward Kennedy, 1934.
mystical writings attributed to Pseudo-Dionysius
gnostic writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, forty-two books in all
old Buenos Aires neighborhood, derived from the former stockyards at Caseros and Rioja, now a street name
Spaniard Grammatician and Lexicographer (1571-1631)
Argentine historian, b. 1901
Publishing house in Argentina.
Portuguese poet, 1878-1960
main post office in Buenos Aires
Mallorca newspaper, now the Diario de Mallorca
periodical edited by Fisherton in Rosario
Torres Villaroel satire