Finder's Guide
H. O.
unidentified object of affection of Borges, later renamed J. M., perhaps Judith Machado
H., W.
mysterious man to whom Shakespeare's sonnets are dedicated
Ha caído una estrella
Silva Valdés poem
Haakon Hakonson
13th century Viking king
Haarlem
city in the Netherlands
Habana, La
San Cristóbal de La Habana, Havana, capital of Cuba
Habicht, Christian Maximilian
German Orientalist, 1775-1839, translator of part of the Arabian Nights for the Breslau edition of 1835-1843
Hablemos con mas propiedad!
Bustos Domecq, 1932
Parodi:" obra en prosa cuyo título sugiere que posiblemente habría sido motivada por las observaciones de Badoglio sobre el abuso de galicismos por parte de Bustos" (17).
Hacedor, El
Borges book of poems and short prose, 1960
Hacia la nada
unpublished long essay by Jorge Guillermo Borges
Hacia una arquitectura sin concesiones
Quincey, 1937
Haciendo Patria
Bernabé Pérez Ortiz, 1935
Hackmann, Heinrich Friedrich
German scholar of China, 1864-1935, author of Chinesische Philosophie, Der Buddhismus and other works
Hadas
fairies
Hades
underworld of Greek mythology
Hades
Greek god of the underworld
Hadhramaut
region in Yemen
Hado
Fate or Destiny
Hadubrand
son of Hildebrand in the Hildebrandslied
Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich
German biologist and philosopher, 1834-1919, author of Der Kampf um den Entwicklungsgedanken, Anthropogenie and other works
Haedo
Haedo is a city located in Partido of Morón, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. It forms part of the urban conurbation of Greater Buenos Aires.
Haedo, Bernardo Juan Francisco
cousin of the narrator in Borges story Funes el memorioso.
Fishburn and Hughes: "Haedo was a family surname of Borges: his mother's cousin was Francisco Haedo. As a child Borges and his family spent summer vacations at the Haedo ranch near Fray Bentos. A few miles north, on the banks of the river Uruguay, there is a small town by the same name." (85)
Haedo, Esther
Borges's cousin, married to the Uruguayan writer Enrique Amorim
Haedo, Francisco
Borges's uncle in Uruguay, father of Esther Haedo
Haedo, Gregorio
uncle of the narrator in Borges story "Funes"
Haermendene pa Helgeland
Ibsen play on the theme of the Laxdoela Saga
Hafiz de Shiraz
Khwāja Šamsu d-Dīn Muḥammad Hāfez-e Šhīrāzī, Persian lyric poet, 1325-1389
Hágase hizo
Tulio Herrera novel, 1965
Hagen
character in the Nibelungenlied
Haggard, Rider
British writer, 1856-1925
Hahn, Werner
German expressionist poet, perhaps the painter who died in Karlsbad in 1944
Hai Feng
Haifeng, city in China east of Hong Kong.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A Chinese town east of Hong Kong." (85)
Hai ku
Japanese genre of short poem
Haidarabad
Hyderabad, city in Andhra Pradesh state in India
Fishburn and Hughes: "A state in south central India. Nizam is the title of the reigning prince." (95)
Hail and Farewell
Moore autobiography, consisting of Ave, 1911, Salve, 1912, and Vale, 1913
Haineyen
town in Idaho
Haití
country
Hákim de Merv
Al-Moqanna, the Veiled Prophet of Khorasan, d. 779
Hakon Hakonarson
Haakon IV, "the Old," Norwegian king, 1204-1263
Hakon, Jar
count in the Heimskringla
Hakons Saga
Sturla Thordarson saga about king Hakon of Norway, who had instigated the murder of Sturla's uncle, Snorri Sturluson
Hal
character in the Njals Saga
Hal Thorarinsson
Icelandic poet, co-author with Rognvald of the Hattalykill
Halevi, Yehuda
Jehudah Halevi, Jewish rabbi, poet and philosopher, born in Spain, c.1075-1141, sometimes Judah ha-Levi or Judah Halevy
Half
legendary king in the Halfssaga
Half Mast Murder
Milward Kennedy, 1930.
Half-Way House
Ellery Queen mystery, 1936
Halfs Saga
Icelandic saga about the legendary king Half
Halicarnaso
Halicarnassus, Greek city in Asia Minor
Halifax, Lord
British religious figure, 1839-1934, compiler of Lord Halifax's Complete Ghost Book, 1936
Hall
character in the Njals Saga
Hall, J. R. Clark
scholar of Old English poetry and author of A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 1855-1931
Hall, Radclyffe
pseudonym of Margaret Radclyffe-Hall, 1880-1943, author of the lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness, here mentioned as author of The Sixth Beatitude
Hallazgo de un tesoro
Marcial Tamayo Saenz, short story.
Halldor Snorrason
ora bard of Iceland
Halle
city in southeastern Germany
Halleck, Henry Wager
Union general in the U. S. Civil War, 1815-1872
Hallelujah
Vidor film, 1929
Haller
probably Karl Ludwig von Haller, Swiss jurist and historian, 1768-1854
Halley, Edmund
English astronomer, 1656-1742
Hallfred
Icelandic skald who died in Scotland
Hallgerd la Hermosa
character in the Njals Saga
Halperín, Gregorio
Argentine classical scholar who studied with Amado Alonso
Halperín, Renata Donghi de
Italian-born Argentine scholar, 1900-1986
Hals, Frans
Dutch painter, 1580-1666
Hamadríadas
tree nymphs of classical mythology
Hamburgo
Hamburg, city in northern Germany
Hamilton, Anthony or Antoine
French classical author born in Ireland, 1646-1720, author of Memoires du comte de Gramont, Zeneyde, Les Quatres facardins and other works
Hamlet
Coleridge essay in Notes and Lectures upon Shakespeare
Hamlet
Shakespeare tragedy, 1603
Hamlet
prince of Denmark, character in Shakespeare, called Amleth or Amlodi in earlier accounts
Hamlet, Revenge!
Michael Innes, novel, 1937.
Hammarskjöld, Dag
Swedish statesman, secretary general of the United Nations, 1905-61
Hammer Purgastall, Joseph, Freiherr von
Austrian orientalist, 1774-1856, author of Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches and other works
Hammett, Dashiell
US detective novelist, 1894-1961, author of Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon and other works
Hamp, Pierre
pseudonym of Henri Bourrillon, French writer, 1876-1962
Hampden, John
editor of Twenty One-Act Plays, 1935
Hampstead
neighborhood in northern London
Hamul
one of the sons of Pharez in the Bible
Han
dynasty that ruled China from 206 B.C. to 220 A.D.
Han Fei Tzu
Chinese philosoopher, c. 280-233
Han Yu
9th century Chinese writer cited in the Anthologie raisonee de la litterature chinoise
Hand of Kornelius Voyt, The
Oliver Onions fantastic novel, 1939
Händel, Georg Friedrich
German composer, 1685-1759
Handy Guide for Beggars, A
Lindsay prose work, 1916
Handy, William Christopher
US jazz and blues musician and composer, 1873-1958, editor of Blues: An Anthology and author of Father of the Blues
Haniel
one of the monsters in Ezekiel's dream
Hanley
town in Staffordshire, now part of Stoke-on-Trent
Hanna
Maronite who aided Galland in his translation of the Arabian Nights
Hanneles Himmelfahrt
La ascensión de Hannele, Hauptmann play with a dream sequence, 1893
Hannibal
town in Missouri on the Mississippi River
Hannon
Hanno, Carthaginian explorer sent to West Africa before 480 B.C., of whose report a Greek version survives
Hanoi
capital of Vietnam
Hans Frost
Hugh Walpole novel, 1929
Hansen, Juan
owner of a restaurant, the "3 de febrero," known in the mythology of the tango as "Lo de Hansen," in the Palermo neighborhood in Buenos Aires, from 1874 to 1892
Parodi:" “la inolvidable pista de Hansen”: conocido por el apellido de su primer propietario, Juan Hansen, “Lo de Hansen” fue un café con pista de baile −para algunos, una mezcla de prostíbulo suntuario con restaurante− que desde 1877 funcionaba en los jardines de Palermo (cf. “Toros” i §2). Considerado una de las cunas del tango, fue demolido en 1912" (28).
Hanslick, Eduard
Bohemian-Austrian music critic, 1825-1904
Hanson, Lawrence
biographer of Cézanne, Coleridge and others
Hanuman
monkey god in the Ramayana
Haokah
Sioux god of thunder
Harald Hardrada Sigurdarson
Harold III , Norwegian king, d. 1066 at Stamford Bridge.
Fishburn and Hughes: "The son of a Norwegian chief who fought against the Danes under King Olaf II of Norway. At the King's death, Harald took refuge in Russia and served under the Prince of Kiev; from there he enlisted in the army of the Byzantine Emperor Michael IV. His military exploits form part of Byzantine and Norse medieval history. King of Norway from 1047, Harald expanded Norse rule over Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides, and claimed the throne of England at the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066, allying himself with the rebel Tostig against the new English king, Harold II. He was defeated and killed on 25 September 1066 at Stamford Bridge." (85)
Harald Harfagar or Harfagr
Harold I , first king of Norway, c. 850-c. 933
Harald, son of Tula
Viking commemorated on runic inscription found in eastern Canada
Haraldson, Olaf
Norwegian king and saint, 995-1030
Harding, Warren G.
U. S. president, 1865-1923
Hardy, Edmund
German scholar of Buddhism, 1852-1904, author of Der Buddhismus nach alteren Pali-Werken, 1890, and numerous other works on Indian religions
Hardy, Oliver
US film actor, 1892-1957, worked in team with Stanley Laurel
Hardy, Thomas
English novelist and poet, 1840-1928
Harlot's House, The
Wilde poem
Harlow, Jean
actress
Harmer John
Hugh Walpole, 1926
Harnack, Adolf von
German theologian, 1851-1930, author of Lehrbuche der Dogmengeschichte, Geschichte der altchristlischen Litteratur and other works.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A German religious historian and patrologist, famous for his formulation of Gnosticism as 'the acute Hellenisation of Christianity'. Harnack was opposed to any form of 'Hellenisation' (the interpretation of early Christianity in the light of Greek tradition), holding that Greek sources were an intrusion into Christian theology. As a result he was critical of traditional Christian dogma. See Wilhelm Bousset." (85)
Harold
English king, son of Godwin, ear of Wessex, 1022?-1066, defeated by the Normans at the battle of Hastings.
Fishburn and Hughes: "The last Anglo-Saxon king of England, who was defeated and killed by William the Conqueror at the battle of Hastings. Harold assumed the crown on the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066 in the face of two other claimants, Harald Hardrada of Norway whom he defeated at Stamford Bridge and William of Normandy." (85)
Harold Diente Azu
Harold Bluetooth, Danish king, d. c.985
Harp Song of the Dane Women
Kipling poem
Harrap, Colonel
character in Bustos Domecq and Suárez Lynch stories
Parodi: 1) "otro de los miembros de la banda internacional de ladrones, supuesto veterano de la guerra de Cuba. Mencionado también en “Toros” y en Modelo V. El nombre del coronel evoca el del propietario de una muy célebre casa editora de Londres, George G. Harrap (1868−1938)" (55).
2) "“la noche aquella en que Harrap lo guardó en la letrina”: Parodi evoca una escena de “Goliadkin” en que el coronel Harrap impidió que Montenegro visitara en el tren el camarote de la baronne Puffendorf -Duvernois y lo encerró en el baño para caballeros, que don Isidro llama ‘letrina’; cf. “Goliadkin” i §15" (234).
Harrar or Harar
city in Ethiopia
Harriague, Magdalena
Argentine poet, 1924-1995
Harris, Frank
US writer, born in Ireland, 1856-1931, author of My Life and Loves, biographies of Shakespeare, Shaw and Wilde, and numerous novels and collections of short stories
Harrison, George Bagshawe
British scholar, 1894-1991, author of works on Shakespeare and English poetry
Harte, Francis Bret
US writer, 1836-1902, author of The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches and many other works
Hartingdom, Marquess of
ghost in Lord Halifax's Ghost Book
Harún al-Roschild
character in Jorge Max Rohde book, combination of the Baron de Rothschild and Harun-al-Rashid
Harun ar-Rashid
fifth Abbasid caliph, c. 764-809, sometimes Arrasid, al-Raschid, Emir de los Creyentes, even Aarón el Ortodoxo; also a character in the Arabian Nights
Harvard Advocate
magazine
Harvard University
in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvarth
in Icelandic saga, see Havarth
Harvey, Paul
author of the first three editions of the Oxford Companion to English Literature and co-author of the Oxford Companion to French Literature
Has vuelto
Carriego poem, published posthumously
Hasenclever, Walter
German expressionist writer, 1890-1940
Haslam family
ancestors of Borges through Fanny Haslam
Haslam, Daniel
pseudonym used by Borges in the Revista Obra, 1935-36
Haslam, Fanny or Frances
Borges's English grandmother, 1842-1935
Haslam, Silas
author of History of the Land Called Uqbar, 1874, and A General History of Labyrinths.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A fictional name, perhaps a tribute to Fanny Haslam, Borges's paternal English grandmother, who is recalled in 'Story of the Warrior and the Captive'. Borges has, on occasion, published under the name David Haslam. See Borges." (86)
Häßliche Herzogin Margarete Maultasch, Die
Feuchtwanger novel, 1923, translated as The Ugly Duchess
Hassan ben Sabbah
Hassan ibn Sabbah, founder of the Assassins at the end of the 11th century
Hasting
Viking warrior in Etruria
Hastings
town in England, site of battle in 1066 between King Harold and William the Conqueror
Hastings, Warren
British official in India, first governor-general, 1732-1818
Hathaway, Anne
Shakespeare's wife, 1557?-1623
Hathor
Egyptian goddess of love and festivity
Hats
Sandburg poem, 1922
Hattalykill
collection of skaldic songs
Hattatal
a list of verse forms by Snorri Sturluson, part of the Prose Edda
Hauara
Hawara, archeological site in Egypt, here mentioned as an ancient labyrinth
Haunted Bookshop, The
La librería encantada, Christopher Morley novel, 1919
Haunted Hotel, The
Wilkie Collins, 1878.
Hauptmann, Gerhart
German playwright, 1862-1946
Hauser, Arnold
Hungarian art historian, 1892-1978
Havamal
"Words of the High One, Odin," part of the Elder Edda
Havarth or Harvarth
character in Icelandic saga
Havarths Saga Isfirthings
Icelandic saga about Havarth
Haver Hill
town in Massachusetts
Havilland, Olivia de
British film actress, b. 1916
Parodi:" “como Errol Flynn y Olivia de Havilland en Vamos a Méjico que en inglés se llama Sombrero”: Errol Flynn (1909−1959) y Olivia de Havilland (1916−?), entre 1935 y 1941 fueron la pareja cinematográfica más célebre de Hollywood; filmaron juntos en siete ocasiones y al menos tres de esos films están ambientados en el Lejano Oeste, como la supuesta película que menciona Mariana. Los títulos que señala Mariana dan pie a una broma sobre las caprichosas titulaciones de películas extranjeras en su traducción al castellano" (81).
Hawaii
island archipelago in the Pacific, former kingdom, now state in the United States
Hawkwood
perhaps Sir John Hawkwood, English condottiere, d. 1394 in Florence
Hawthorne family
ancestors of Nathanie Hawthorne, including Major William Hathorne, early Puritan settler in Salem
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
US writer, 1804-1864, author of The Scarlet Letter, The Marble Faun, The Blithedale Romance, Wakefield and other works
Hay que cuidarla mucho, hermana, mucho
Carriego poem, published posthumously
Haycraft, Howard
US editor and publisher, 1905-1991, editor of Murder for Pleasure
Hayem, Georges
French phycisian (1841-1933).
Hayoth
four angelic beings in Jewish tradition
Hazlitt, William
English essayist, 1778-1830, author of countless essays on drama, poetry and history, as wel as travel books and letters.
Fishburn and Hughes: "An English critic and essayist. 'Hazlitt's infinite Shakespeare' refers to Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets (1818), where he wrote: 'He was just like any other man, but that he was like all other men.... He was nothing in himself; but he was all that others were or that they could become.' Borges paraphrases these words in 'From Someone to Nobody' (TL 341) and develops Hazlitt's idea in 'Everything and Nothing' (CF 319)." (86)
He Did Not Die at Mayerling
The Autobiography of R, 1937 book written in collaboration with Henry Wysham Lanier, about the 1889 Mayerling Incident, the murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera
He Who Whispers
Dickson Carr, novel, 1946.
Head in Green Bronze
Head of Caesar, The
Chesterton story in The Wisdom of Father Brown
Head Tide
town in Maine
Healy, Norah
Norah Barnacle, 1884-1951, wife of James Joyce, here called by her mother's surname
Heard, Gerald
English writer on religion and psychology, 1889-1971, author of Pain, Sex and Time
Hearn, Lafcadio
US writer, 1850-1904, author of various books on Japan
Hearst, William Randolph
US financier and newspaperman, 1863-1951, model for Citizen Kane in Orson Welles movie
Heart and Science
Wilkie Collins, 1883.
Heart of Darkness
Conrad short novel, 1902
Heart of the Matter, The
Graham Greene, novel, 1948.
Heary, O.
a misprint for O. Henry
Heathen Chinee, The
Harte story
Heaven is my Destination
Wilder novel, 1935
Hebbel, Christian Friedrich
German tragic dramatist, 1813-1863
Hebe
minor Greek goddess, daughter of Hera and Zeus
Hebräische Melodien
Heine, third book of the Romanzero, 1851
Hebreo, León
Yehuda Abrabanel, Jewish philosopher poet, c. 1465-1520
Hebreos
Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, in the Bible
Hebrew Melodies
Byron, 1815
Hebrews
Hecate
in Greek mythology, goddess of ghosts and witchcraft
Hechicero
God
Hechizado, El
By Francisco Ayala
Hechos de los Apostoles
in Bible, Acts of the Apostles
Hechos diversos de la tierra y del cielo
See Faits divers de la terre et du ciel
Héctor
Trojan hero, son of Priam
Hector Servadac: voyages et aventures a travers le monde
Verne novel
Hedda Gabler
Ibsen play, 1891
Hedinn
character in the Prose Edda
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
German philosopher, 1770- 1831, author of Wissenschaft der Logik, Philosophie der Geschichte and numerous writings on logic, history, politics and aesthetics.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A German philosopher, one of the foremost representatives of nineteenth-century idealism. According to Hegel's definition of reality, individual facts are not rational in themselves but only if viewed as aspects of the whole. The whole is called the 'absolute'; it is spiritual, and can only be reached by a process of logic. Deutsches Requiem: this process, known as 'dialectics', is composed of a triadic movement of thesis, the original statement, antithesis, its counterpart, to which the first gives rise, and synthesis, the unification of the two. This synthesis then becomes the new thesis in the next stage of the movement. The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero: Hegel's dialectical system of knowledge also operates in his vision of history. Deeply religious, Hegel viewed the universe as a manifestation of God, the absolute, who arrives at final self-knowledge through the history of finite beings. The human mind, rising from mere consciousness, passes through various stages, culminating in religion and perfect knowledge. Hegel further expands this principle by observing the various dialectic and cyclical stages of human progress in the realisation of God's purpose." (86)
Hegelings
warriors in the Gudrun
Hegira (Hejira)
Fishburn and Hughes: "From the Arabic hijrah, emigration: the term for the starting point of the Muslim era, dated at 622 AD, when Mohammed fled from Mecca to Medina. The second caliph, Umari, introduced the Muslim calendar, which began with the first day of the lunar month, 16 July 622. The seventh century after the Hegira would therefore correspond to our fourteenth century." (87)
Heidegger, Martin
German philosopher, 1889-1976, author of Sein und Zeit and other works.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A German philosopher who influenced Existentialism. Borges criticises Heidegger's philosophy as one which 'plays at desperation and anguish' but basically aims at enhancing the importance of the 'ego' and flattering its 'vanity' (‘Note on Bernard Shaw’, Other Inq. 166). Elsewhere he belittles Heidegger's achievement: 'He invented one of the German dialects, but nothing else' (Borges mem. 78). CF 391: The sentiments attributed to Heidegger's 'refutation' can be traced to his Rektoratsrede, where he demonstrates his warm reception of National Socialism, emphasising its ideas of strong, even violent, personal leadership. Heidegger speaks of a people knowing itself and discovering its own essence in the state. He places the statesman among his list of genuine creators, demanding of his leadership 'the strength to be able to walk alone'. The suggestion of Hitlerian demagoguery echoes Heidegger's words (Freiburger Studentenzeitung, Nov.3, 1933): 'The Führer himself and he alone is the German reality of today and for the future, and its law.' In later years Heidegger repudiated this position." (87)
Heidelberg
university city in Germany
Heidenstam, Carl Gustaf Verner von
Swedish poet and novelist, 1859-1940, winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 1916
Heidentum, Christentum, Judentum: Ein Bekenntnisbuch
Judaísmo y Cristianismo, Max Brod, 1921
Heiland
Christ the Redeemer
Heimat
Sudermann play, 1893
Heimdal
in Scandinavian mythology, watchman of the gods, guardian of Valhalla
Heimkehr
1928 film based on Leonhard Frank's Karl und Anna
Heimskringla
Snorri Sturluson's history of the Norse kings
Heine, Enrique
See Heine, Heinrich
Heine, Heinrich
German lyric poet, 1797-1856, author of the Buch der Lieder, Romanzero and other works
Heinemann, Karl
German scholar, 1857-1927, author of Deutsche Dichtung, grundriss der deutscher Literaturgeschichte and other works
Heinlein, Robert
US science fiction writer, 1907-1988
Heinrich Heine
Louis Untermeyer biography, 1937
Heinrich von Melk
12th century Austrian monk and poet, author of Von des todes gehugde and Das Priesterleben
Heisenberg, Werner
German physicist, 1901-76, important for his work on quantum mechanics and the "Uncertainty Principle"
Helánico
Hellanicus of Lesbos, Greek writer, fl. c. 450-406, author of lost works on mythology and history
Heldenbuch
13th century collection of stories of Germanic heroes
Helen Keller's Journal
selections from Keller's diaries for 1936-37
Heliand
religious epic poem written in Old Saxon during the reign of Ludwig the Pious, 814-840
Hélices
Guillermo Torre book of Ultraist poems, 1923
Helicon Home
Utopian socialist community founded by Upton Sinclair in Englewood, New Jersey in 1906
Heliodoro
Greek believer in Vishnu
Heliogábalo, Antonino
Varius Avitus, called Heliogabalus or Elagabalus, Roman emperor, c.205-222.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A dissolute Roman emperor, originally named Bassianus. He served in the Roman army in Syria, where he was popular with the Roman troops for his exceptional beauty, and was appointed high priest of the sun god of Emesa, Elagabal. Elected emperor in 218 at the age of 15, he took the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and added 'Heliogabalus' in honour of the god whose secret rites he introduced into the capital. His brief reign, marked by debauchery and cruelty, exemplifies a decadent and turbulent imperial court. Jealous of the popularity of his abstemious cousin, Alexander, he attempted to murder him; he was later killed by the Praetorian Guard in a latrine, together with his mother. The anecdote of the emperor writing 'on shells the lots... destined for his guests' is told by Lampridius in the Historia Augusta (2.22.1)." (87)
Heliopolis
ancient city in Egypt, now northeastern part of Cairo.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A city in Egypt important for the worship of the sun god Ra. Among its few remains are the obelisks known as Cleopatra's needles." (87)
Heliópolis
religious center of the Ituraean tetrarchy, now called Baalbek in Lebanon
Heller, Eladio
character in Bioy Casares novel
Helluland
old Norse name for Labrador
Helmer, Nora
character in Ibsen's The Doll House
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Helvetiorum Fidei ac virtute
The Loyalty and Bravery of the Swiss: inscription on the Lion Monument in Lucerne, Switzerland
Hemingja
Norse monster
Hemingway, Ernest
US novelist, 1899-1961, author of The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Snows of Kiliminjaro and numerous other works
Hemlige Frälsaren, Den
Runeberg treatise maintaining that Judas was the Messiah, 1909
Hemme
town in northern Germany
Henderson
learned doctor mentioned by Gibbon, d. 1787
Henderson, Patrick Arkley Wright
author of The Life and Times of John Wilkins, 1910
Hengist or Hengest
Jutish leader of 5th century invasion of Britain with his brother Horsa
Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
German Lutheran divine and theologian, 1802-1869, author of Christologie des Alten Testaments and editor of the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A German Protestant theologian and leader of the orthodox Lutherans, a bitter opponent of 'rationalism' as a method of Old Testament criticism. In 1830 he mounted a violent attack on the rationalist Gesenius." (88)
Henley, Samuel
English pastor, translator of Beckford's Vathek from French to English in 1785
Henley, William Ernest
English poet, 1849-1903, collaborator with Stevenson on Deacon Brodie and author of Invictus
Henn, Thomas Rice
scholar, 1901-1974, author of The Lonely Tower, a study of Yeats
Hennig, Richard
German theologian, author of Terrae incognitae, 1944-1956
Henning, Max
German scholar of the Islamic world, 1861-1927, translator of the Koran and the Arabian Nights
Henriade, La
Voltaire epic poem on Henri IV of France, 1723
Henríquez Ureña, Max
Dominican diplomat, essayist and historian, 1885-1968, author of Breve historia de modernismo and other works
Henríquez Ureña, Pedro
Dominican critic and teacher, 1884-1946, author of Ensayos críticos, Historia de la cultura en la América Hispánica and other works.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A critic and teacher from the Dominican Republic, once considered the foremost Latin American literary historian. He spent most of his later life in Buenos Aires where he was one of the original contributors to Sur, the literary magazine founded by Victoria Ocampo. Henriquez Ureña was a long-standing friend of Borges and collaborated with him in the publication of Antología clásica de la literatura, argentina (1937)." (88)
Henry James
West biography, 1916
Henry the Fourth, Part I
Shakespeare historical play, c. 1597
Henry VIII
Shakespeare play, 1613
Henry, Lord
character in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Heorrenda
riva of Deor in the Deor
Hepburn, Katharine
US film actress, 1907-2003
Hephaistos
Greek god of metalworking
Heptameron, L'
collection of tales by Marguerite de Navarre, 1558
Parodi:" “el Heptamerón de la Reina Margarita”: se trata de una colección de relatos escritos por Marguerite d’Angoulême (1492-1549), más conocida como Marguerite de Navarre, que fue princesa de Orleans y reina consorte de Navarra. A semejanza del Decamerón de Boccaccio (cf. infra), en el Heptameron (1540-1549), diez viajeros sorprendidos por una tempestad se refugian en una abadía y durante siete días cuentan historias que comentan los oyentes; el resultado son setenta y dos relatos sobre el tema del amor, que describen y satirizan prácticas eróticas sobre todo de la corte renacentista de Navarra" (265).
Hera
goddess in Greek mythology
Heracleidae
Euripides drama
Heracles
hero in Greek mythology, see Hercules
Heráclides Póntico
Heraclides Ponticus the Younger, Greek grammarian and poet, fl. c. 30-60.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A Greek philosopher, born in Heraclea (Pontus), a pupil of Speusippus and Plato. Many books in philosophy, rhetoric, music and mathematics are attributed to him, though nothing survives. Diogenes Laertius states that Heraclides, a trickster by nature, once persuaded the people of Heraclea that, by giving him a golden crown, they would avoid the famine which threatened their city. Before dying he arranged for his corpse to disappear, wishing people to believe that he had ascended bodily to Heaven, but the plan was discovered and his name ridiculed." (88)
Heráclito
Heraclitus of Abdera or Ephesus, Greek philosopher, c. 535-c. 475.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A Presocratic philosopher, of whose work only oracular fragments remain. His philosophy, in opposition to that of Parmenides, was based on the principle of permanent movement in nature due to the continuously changing character of its primordial element, fire; the process takes the form of a perpetual conflict of opposites, struggle and unity. This concept found echoes in the dialectics of Hegel. Isolated epigrammatic remarks by Heraclitus on his contemporaries and predecessors survive, mainly pungent and contemptuous." (88)
Herbelot de Moulainville, Barthélemy D'
French orientalist, 1625-1695, author of a Bibliothèque orientale
Herbert, George
English poet, 1593-1623, author of The Temple
Herbsttag
poem in Rilke's Buch der Bilder
Herculano, Alexandre
Portuguese novelist and historian, 1810-1877
Hércules
Heracles or Herakles, hero in Greek mythology
Hercules Barbatus
nickname for Olaf Haraldsson
Hercules Poirot's Christmas
Agatha Chirstie, novel, 1938.
Herd of Red Deer: A Study in Animal Behaviour
Frank Fraser Darling book, 1937
Herder, Johann Gottfried von
German philosopher and critic, 1744-1803, author of Uber die neuere deutsche Literatur, Uber den Ursprung der Sprache, Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit and other works
Herdis
wife of Snorri Sturluson
Heredia, José B.
Heredia, José-Maria de
French Parnassian poet born in Cuba, 1842-1905, author of Les Trophées
Hereford
city in western England
Heretics
Chesterton book, 1905
Hereward the Wake
English leader of the resistance to William the Conqueror
Heriman
Hermann of Reichenau or Herimannus Augiensis, German scholar and chronicler, 1013-1054, author of a Chronicum ad annum 1054
Herman Melville
Freeman biography, 1926
Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic
Weaver monograph, 1921
Hermana de Eloísa, La
Borges and Levinson story
Hermanos Karamazov
Bratya Karamazovy, Dostoevski novel, 1880
Hermanos Marx
Marx Brothers, US comedic actors
Hermaphroditus
Beccadelli or "Panormita" collection of obscene epigrams
Parodi: "“El hermafrodita de Antonio Panormitano”: Antonio Beccadelli (1394−1471), llamado el Panormitano, fue poeta, jurista, diplomático y humanista siciliano. El hermafrodita (1425), la primera colección de poesía erótica latina publicada durante el Renacimiento, reúne ochenta epigramas; la Iglesia prohibió su lectura por licenciosa. Desde 1443, Beccadelli fue protegido de Alfonso V de Aragón (1396-1458) en el reino de Nápoles" (160).
Hermaphroditus
Swinburne poem
Hermes
Greek god
Fishburn and Hughes: "In Greek mythology the herald or messenger of the gods, the protector of herdsmen and the god of science, commerce, invention, the arts and, above all, travellers. In this last role Hermes was also the guide of the souls of the dead to their final abode (psychopompos). In art he is usually represented as a vigorous youth with winged helmet and sandals. A guide in both life and death, Hermes is referred to as two-faced." (89).
Hermés
brand of boots
Parodi:" “traje de montar de Redfern, ponchillo de Patou, botas de Hermés, maquillaje pleinair de Elizabeth Arden”: marcas de ropa y de cosméticos, todas de lujo y alta moda" (72).
Hermes Trismegisto
Hermes Trismegistus, Greek translation of name of Egyptian god of wisdom, Thoth, to whom the hermetic books were attributed
Hermetic books (Libros herméticos)
Fishburn and Hughes: "A collection of occult writings, known as the Corpus Hermeticum, dating from the first to the third centuries. Their origin was ascribed to the Egyptian god Thoth, who received from the Greeks the name Hermes Trismegistos ('thrice-great Hermes'). They include a text called Asclepius, thought to have been used by St Augustine in the writing of Civitas Dei." (89)
Hermótimo
one of Pythagoras's previous incarnations, a soldier in the Trojan War
Hernández
soldier at Paysandú
Hernández, Efrén
Mexican writer, 1904-1958
Hernández, José
Argentine politician and gauchesque poet, 1834-86, author of the Martín Fierro as well as Instrucción de estanciero, Vida de Chacho and other prose collected in Prosas de Martín Fierro
Parodi: 1) "político, periodista y poeta argentino, autor de El gaucho Martín Fierro (1872) y su continuación, La vuelta de Martín Fierro (1876)" (29).
2)" “do ya braceara José Hernández”: José Hernández, el autor del poema El gaucho Martín Fierro (cf. “Palabra” §13), fue un decidido partidario de López Jordán. Tras el asesinato de Urquiza, Hernández se unió a la rebelión del caudillo entrerriano; derrotado el movimiento en 1871, Hernández partió al exilio" (418).
Hernández, Pedro
public scribe, stock figure
Hernández, Rafael
brother and biographer of José Hernández, author of Pehuajó
Hernández, Rafael
father of José and Rafael Hernández
Hernández, Ramón
gaucho, member of the Unión Cívica Radical who was killed in Paso de los Libres in 1934
Herodes
Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee mentioned in New Testament, d. c.39 A.D.
Herodes
king of Judea who ordered the massacre of the innocents, reigned 40-4 B. C.
Heródoto
Greek historian, 484?-425?.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A Greek historian, born in Halicarnassus, known as the 'father of history'. After travelling in Asia Minor, Greece and Egypt, Herodotus settled in the Greek colony of Thurii in Italy. His History, full of charm and subtlety, relates the struggle between Greece and Persia, with numerous digressions. CF 171: Herodotus (2.87) gives details of the Phoenix, having seen it in a painting, and describes the bird's ritual returns to Heliopolis." (89)
Héroe de Desierto
name for Juan Manuel de Rosas after the campaign of 1833 against the pampas Indians
Herrengasse
bar in Bustos Domecq story
Parodi:" célebre calle de la ciudad de Viena" (146).
Herrera y Obes, Julio
Uruguayan politician, 1841-1912, also the name of a street in Montevideo
Herrera y Reissig, Julio
Uruguayan modernist poet, 1875-1910, author of Los parques abandonados, Los éxtasis de la montaña and other works
Parodi: "poeta modernista uruguayo, 1875-1910, autor de Los parques abandonados (1902-1908), Los éxtasis de la montaña (1904-1907). Herrera es mencionado también en “Gradus” §23" (253).
Herrera, Fernando de
Spanish poet, 1534-1597
Herrera, Tulio
character in Bustos Domecq story, author of Hagase hizo, Madrugar temprano and other works
Parodi: "escritor supuestamente nacido en Buenos Aires un 24 de agosto (el mismo día en que, en 1899, nacía Borges). Bustos le atribuye tres obras: una Apología; el poemario Madrugar temprano y la novela Hágase hizo" (308).
Herrero, Antonio
Argentine literary scholar, author of El poeta de hombre: Almafuerte y su obra, 1918
Herreros, Pedro
Spanish poet who lived in Argentina, associated with the Centro Republicano Español
Herrick, Robert
English poet, 1591-1674
Herries
family in cycle of Hugh Walpole novels
Herrigel, Eugen
author of Zen in the Art of Archery, 1953
Herrigel, Gustie
author of Zen in the Art of Flower Arrangement, 1958
Herrmann, Paul
German scholar, author of Nordische Mythologie and Danische Geschichte des Saxo Grammaticus
Hertha
Fishburn and Hughes: "A Teutonic fertility goddess, formerly known as Nerthus, said by Tacitus to have been worshipped by early German tribes (Germania 40). Hertha corresponds to the Nordic Jord, earth goddesss and mother of Thor. In Germanic sagas Hertha (or Erda) is the oldest and wisest of the gods to whom Wotan appeals for knowledge." (89)
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf
German physicist who was the first to demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic radiation, 1857-1894
Hervidero, El
strait in the Uruguay River, also nearby tableland south of Salto in Uruguay where Artigas set up his headquarters
Herzl, Theodor
Austro-Hungarian journalist, 1860-1904, father of political Zionism
Hesíodo
Greek poet, 8th century B.C., author of Works and Days and the Theogony
Fishburn and Hughes: "A Greek epic poet, a near-contemporary of Homer and author of the Theogony and Works and Days. The Theogony details the history of the gods from their emergence from chaos to the moment when Pandora, the first woman, is entrusted by Zeus with ajar containing all the evils 90 which she will let loose on humanity. The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero: in the Works and Days Hesiod combines the moral teachings of the Theogony with rural precepts: continuing the story of Pandora, he traces the decline of mankind from the golden age through the silver and bronze ages down to the present iron age. The later part describes the various tasks which face the farmer and the appropriate times of year in which to perform them, harmonising the rhythm of nature with that of human life." (89)
Hesse, Hermann
Swiss poet and novelist, 1877-1962
Heston
Heston Aerodrome was a 1930s airfield to the west of London near Cranford
Hette
king of the Hegelings in the Gudrun
Hexameron
St. Ambrose work on Cain and Abel
Heym, George
German poet, 1887-1912
Heynicke, Kurt
German writer, 1891-1985, associated with expressionism in his youth
Hezar Afsane
Persian collection, the "Thousand Stories," probably derived from Sanskrit sources, and itself a source of the Arabian Nights
Hiawatha
Longfellow poem, 1855.
Hibernia
Roman name for Ireland.
Fishburn and Hughes: "The Latin name for Ireland." (90)
Hidalgo, Alberto
Peruvian avant-garde poet, 1897-1967
Hidalgo, Bartolomé
Uruguayan poet, creator of gauchesque poetry, 1788-1822
Hidalgo, Juan
author of a Vocabulario de germanía, 1609
Hidebehind
strange creature of North America
Hidra
Hydra, water serpent in Greek myth
Hieck, Richard
character in Hermann Broch's Die Unbekannte Grösse
Hiérocles
Greek Stoic philosopher, fl. c. 120 A.D., author of Elements of Ethics
Hieroglyphics
Machen, 1902
High Noon
Fred Zinneman film, 1952, with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly
Hight, G. Ainslie
translator of the Grettir Saga and of a biography of Wagner
Higiénica
Parodi: "“el cobrador de la Higiénica”: empresa que se menciona entre otras “compañías de cloacas y limpieza de letrinas” en Borges 768" (393).
Higuerota
mountain, geographical landmark of the imaginary Estado Occidental in Conrad's Nostromo.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A peak whose 'white head rises majestically' in the Cordillera of fictional Costaguana described in Conrad's novel Nostromo. See Avellanos, Eastado Occidental, Golfo Plácido, José Korzeniovski." (90)
Hijo
in the Trinity, Christ the Son
Hijo de la Pampa, El
Lugones, part of El Payador
Hijo de su amigo, El
Bustos Domecq story, 1952
Hijo malcriado de Darwin, El
phrase used by G. A. Borgese to refer to Nietzsche
Hijo rechazado, El
Peyrou, novel, 1969.
Hijo, El
Jesucristo
Hild
monastery near where Caedmon lived
Hild de Streonesha
St. Hilda, abbess of Whitby, 614-680
Hilde
princess of India in the Gudrun
Hildebrand
hero of the German poem Hildebrandslied
Hildebrandslied
alliterative Old High German poem, written c. 800, telling of the battle between Hildebrand and his son Hadubrand
Hildeburh
Danish princess in the Finnsburh fragment
Hildegund de Borgoña
French princess in the Waltharius
Hildr
daughter of Hogni, character in the Prose Edda
Hilerio
Romanized version of the name of Adolf Hitler
Hilgenfeld, Adolf Bernhard Christoph
German Protestant divine and scholar, 1823-1907, author of numerous works on the early Christians
Hill of Dreams
Machen, 1907
Hill, Frank Ernest
California journalist, poet, aviator and author, 1905-1969, translator of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales into modern English in 1935
Hilton, James
English novelist, 1900-1954, author of Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr Chips and We Are Not Alone
Himalayan
Kipling poem
Himalayas
mountain range
Himno a la luna
Lugones poem in Lunario sentimental
Himno de las torres
Lugones prose piece in Las montañas de oro
Himno del mar
Borges's first published poem, 1920
Himno nacional argentino
Oíd mortales, Argentine national anthem, lyrics by Vicente López y Planes and music by Blas Parera
Himno nacional uruguayo
Uruguayan national anthem, written by Francisco Acuña de Figueroa
Himnos para millonarios
Anglada book of poems, 1934
Parodi:" supuesta obra de Anglada que correspondería a su etapa nietzscheana. Según Formento, para la realización de esta obra, Anglada se habría basado en un artículo de Azorín (cf. “H.B.D.” §3). De los varios miles de artículos escritos por Azorín para diversos periódicos, hacia la fecha de la publicación de Seis problemas, en 1941, en El pueblo gallego de Vigo apareció “Nietzsche en España”, un título que tuvo amplia repercusión, provocó reacciones encontradas y fue reeditado en otros diarios. Azorín afirma allí el valor que el pensamiento nietzscheano seguía teniendo entonces para España: “No creemos que un partido que aspire a levantar a España pueda tener otra filosofía que la de Nietzsche”" (66).
Himnos rojos
unfinished early Borges work, also called Ritmos rojos
Hind in Richmond Park, A
Hudson, 1922
Hindenburg, Paul von
German military officer and president, 1847-1934
Hindustan Review
journal published in Allahabad, founded in 1903
Fishburn and Hughes: "There is no record of a Hindustan Review in Allahabad, but the Hindustani was published there, in Urdu, from 1931 to 1933." (90)
Hinter der Front
Detrás del frente, poem by Kurt Heynicke published in Der Sturm in 1919
Hinton, Charles Howard
British philosopher, 1853-1907, author of The Fourth Dimension, A New Era of Thought and other works.
Fishburn and Hughes: "English born mathematician and writer of science fiction. He was interested in higher dimension, and published (among other) The Fourth Dimension and A New Era of Thought. Borges discusses these works in TR II 95-99, ‘La cuarta dimensión’, originally published under his pseudonym Daniel Haslam." (90)
Hipocampos
seahorses
Hipócrates
Hippocrates, the Asclepiad of Cos, Greek physician, father of medicine, 469-399
Hipocresía de la hormiga
Unamuno poem
Hipódromo
Palermo racetrack in Buenos Aires
Hipogrifo
cross of griffins with horses
Hipólita, doña
ranch owner mentioned in Evaristo Carriego
Hipona
city of Hippo in north Africa, where St. Augustine came from
Hirsch, Maurice
German-Jewish baron, financier and philanthropist, 1831-96
Parodi: ""las colonias israelitas del barón Hirsch”: el Barón Moritz von Hirsch auf Gereuth, conocido como Maurice Hirsch (1831-1896) fue un empresario, financista y filántropo judío-alemán que organizó y en parte financió la emigración de judíos de Rusia y otros territorios de Europa oriental hacia varios países, entre ellos, a la Argentina. Los primeros inmigrantes judíos llegaron en 1891 y se instalaron en tierras adquiridas por Hirsch. La presencia de los colonos judíos favoreció el poblamiento y el desarrollo de varias regiones del país, entre otras, de la provincia de Entre Ríos. Fue en esa provincia, en la Colonia Rajil, fundada por Hirsch, donde creció Alberto Gerchunoff, que había nacido en Ucrania en 1883 y que llegó con su familia a la Argentina en 1889. Gerchunoff narró sus experiencias de vida, la cultura y el trabajo en las colonias en una novela que tituló Los gauchos judíos, publicada en 1910, para el Centenario de la Revolución de Mayo" (417).
His Shih
woman mentioned in Chuang Tzu parable
Hispania
Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula
Histoire comique des états et empires du soleil
Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657
Histoire de Charles XII
Voltaire, 1731, about Swedish king
Histoire de la littérature allemande
Geneviève Bianquis, 1936 and subsequent editions
Histoire de la littérature française de 1789 à nos jours
Historia de la Literatura Francesa desde 1789 hasta nuestros días, Thibaudet, Paulhan and Bopp, 1936
Histoire de la philosophie
Emile Brehier, several volumes, 1921-1948
Histoire de la philosophie médievale
Maurice de Wulf, 1900
Histoire generale des voyages
Abbé Prévost miscellany in many volumes, 1671, with a sequel, Nouvelle histoire générale des Voyages
Histoires Brisées
Paul Valéry, 1950.
Histoires désobligeantes
Bloy stories, 1894
Histoires insolites
Collection of short stories by Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, 1888.
Histoires tragiques
Belleforest compilation of tragic stories from Bandello and other sources, 1559 and later editions
Historia
personification of history
Historia
Herodotus history
Historia adversum paganos
Orosius universal history, c.417
Historia animalium
Gesner, 1551-1558
Historia científica del cinematógrafo
Anglada
Parodi:" obra que finge estar escribiendo Anglada" (87).
Historia crítica de la literatura uruguaya
Carlos Roxlo work in 7 vols.
História da literatura portuguesa
Materiales para la historia de la civilización portuguesa, Teófilo Braga, 1909-1918
História da literatura portuguesa
Fidelino Figuereido, 1914
Historia de Abdula, el mendigo ciego.
One of the stories in the One Thousand and One Nights.
Historia de Abdula, el mendigo ciego.
One of the stories in the One Thousand and One Nights.
Historia de arrabal
Manuel Gálvez novel, 1922
Historia de Cecilia
Excerpt from De divinatione by Cicero.
Historia de historias
one of Torres Villaroel's Sueños morales
Historia de Inglaterra
Macaulay, see History of England
Historia de la ciudad de azófar, La
story in the One Hundred and One Nights
Historia de la dominación de los árabes en España
Conde work in 3 vols., 1820-1821
Historia de la eternidad
Borges book of essays, 1936
Historia de la literatura
history of world literature published in Spain
Historia de la literatura argentina
Ricardo Rojas work in 8 vols., 1917-22
Historia de la literatura china
Giles, see History of Chinese Literature
Historia de la música argentina
Arturo C. Schianca article in Crítica, 1933, also the title of a 1910 book by Juan Alvarez
Historia de la Nación Argentina
Historical study written by Héctor G. Ramos Mejía. 2 Volumes.
Historia de la noche
Borges collection of poems, 1977
Historia de la orilla del mar
Chinese work translated into German by Franz Kuhn
Historia de la poesía hispanoamericana
Menéndez y Pelayo, 1911
Historia de la República Argentina
History book written by Vicente Fidel López. 10 Volumes.
Historia de la secta de los Hasidim
Yarmolinsky study
Fishburn and Hughes: "The plural of 'Hasid': Hebrew for pious, a term used for the followers of a popular religious movement which arose among Polish Jews in the eighteenth century as a reaction to rabbinical and ritual formalism. Under the charismatic leadership of their founder, Baal Shem Tov, the Hasidim, while continuing to adhere to strict observance of the Law, emphasised the joyousness of religion and the ecstasy of prayer, claiming that man's salvation lies in faith rather than religious knowledge. Their pantheistic concept of God was expressed in the belief that material objects are in reality the image of the deity. One of the distinguishing features of Hasidism was the unquestioned authority bestowed upon the Tzaddik, or spiritual leader, regarded as a mediator between man and God and endowed with supernatural powers. This personality cult, which led to much abuse and superstition, contributed to the animosity felt by orthodox Jews towards Hasidism and the persecution and even excommunication of their leaders by some rabbis, who considered them a godless sect. The idea that this animosity could lead to murder has no historical basis; yet it is not too fanciful for Scharlach to have built his masterplan on the premise that his enemy, the detective Lönnrot, might think it possible." (85)
Historia de las filosofías y religiones
Gregorovius, perhaps a reference to his Geschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter, 13 vols., 1859-1872
Historia de las ideas esteticas en España
Menéndez y Pelayo, 8 vols., 1882-1891
Historia de las naciones septentrionales
Olaus Magnus work, 1555
Historia de los dos que soñaron
Excerpt from Geschichte des Abbasidenchalifats in Aegypten by Gustav Weil.
Historia de los Godos
Jourdanes, see De rebus Geticis
Historia de los heterodoxos españoles
Menéndez y Pelayo, 1880-82
Historia de los jalifas
Baladhuri's Futuh ul-Buldan, a history of the early expansion of Islam under the Caliphate
Historia de los movimientos, la separación y la guerra de Cataluña
Francisco Manuel de Mello history, 1645, published under the pseudonym of Clemente Libertino
Historia de Lucía Miranda
Excerpt from Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Río de la Plata (1612), written by Ruy Díaz de Guzmán.
Historia de mi muerte
Lugones poem in El libro fiel
Historia de Pedro Moyano
Gauchesque literary work edited and transcribed by Ventura R. Lynch
História de Portugal
Alexandre Herculano, 1846-1853
Historia de Rosendo Juárez
Short story by Borges
Historia de San Martín y de la emancipación sudamericana
Mitre, 1887-90
Historia de São Domingos
Luís de Sousa life of Saint Dominic
Historia de Sarmiento
Lugones essay, 1911
Historia de una pasión argentina
Eduardo Mallea essay, 1937
Historia de zorros
In the Antología de la literatura fantástica, story attributed to Niu Chiao.
Historia del arrabal
Gálvez novel, 1922
Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Río de la Plata
Only book written by Ruy Díaz de Guzmán in 1612.
Historia del guerrero y la cautiva
Borges story, 1949
Historia del Paraguay, Río de la Plata y Tucumán
José Guevara, published posthumously in the 1830s
Historia del Shorthorn en la Argentina
History of Shorthorn Cattle in Argentina, Stanwick, 1910.
Historia del tango, La
Book written by Héctor and Luis Bates in 1936.
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
Bede's history of the English people from the Roman invasion to 731
Historia naturalis. See Naturalis historia
Fishburn and Hughes: "A rambling scientific treatise by Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79) which deals with geography, anthropology, physiology, botany, agriculture, medicine and the arts. Compiled from vast reading, and citing about 500 authors, of whom about 150 were Roman, it is a major source of our knowledge of ancient life. Funes, his Memory, CF 133: the 'odd volume' in the story of Funes probably refers to book 2 where in chapters 3-7 Pliny writes about memory, calling it 'the boon most necessary for life'..
Historia panorámica del periodismo nacional
Gervasio Montenegro
Parodi: "obra de Gervasio Montenegro" (323).
Historia philosophiae graecae et romanae ex fontium locis contexta
Heinrich Ritter and Ludwig Preller, 1838
Historia prodigiosa
Collection of short stories by Adolfo Bioy Casares, 1956.
Historia Regum Britanniae
Geoffrey of Monmouth history of Britain, c.1150
Historia universal
Boethius
Historia universal
Cantu, see Storia universale
Historia universal de la infamia
Borges, 1935
Historia verdadera or Historia verídica
Lucian satirical work, Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, the so-called True History
Historias de cronopios y de famas
Cortázar, 1962.
Historias universales
Name given in the Antología de la literatura fantástica to a fragment of Star Maker (1937) by Olaf Stapledon.
Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Bonaparte
Whately, 1819
Historien
Heine, 1851
History
Emerson essay, 1841
History of Britain, The
Milton, 1670
History of Chinese Literature
Giles, 1901
History of England
Belloc, 1915
History of England from the Accession of James II
Macaulay, 1849-1861
History of English Literature
Lang, 1912
History of English Literature
Legouis and Cazamian, 1924
History of English Literature
Saintsbury, see Short History of English Literature
History of Frederick the Great. See, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great.
History of Frederick the Great. See, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great.
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great.
Carlyle, 1851.
History of Italian Literature
Richard Garnett, 1898
History of Japanese Literature
Kato work in two volumes, one on the first thousand years, 1979, and the second on the modern period, 1991
History of Mr Polly
H. G. Wells comic novel, 1910
History of New York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Dietrich Knickerbocker
Irving burlesque history, 1809
History of Persia, A
Percy Sykes, 1915
History of Piracy, The
Philip Gosse, 1932
History of Spiritualism, The
Conan Doyle, 1926.
History of the Early Kings of Norway
Carlyle, 1875
History of the Land Called Uqbar
Haslam, 1874
History of the Navy
Cooper, 1839
History of the World War, 1914-1918
Liddell Hart, 1934
History of Western Philosophy
Russell, 1945
Hitchcock, Alfred
Anglo-American film director, 1899-1980, director of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Spellbound and dozens of other films
Hitler, Adolf
Nazi dictator, born in Austria, 1889-1945, author of Mein Kampf.
Fishburn and Hughes: "The leader of the National Socialist Party in Germany, who was elected Chancellor in 1933. In defiance of treaty obligations he rearmed and led Germany into a disastrous war which changed the face of Europe. Preaching the supremacy of the Aryan race, his policy was a 'final solution': the complete extermination of the Jews. Six million died in German concentration camps. In 'A Comment 92 on August 23, 1944', Borges speculates on the hypothesis that Hitler actually wished to be destroyed and collaborated in his own annihilation (TL 210). " (91)
Hjadnings
group of warriors in the Prose Edda
Hjalprek
Danish king in the Volsunga Saga
Hladík, Jaromir
character in Borges story, author of the verse drama Los enemigos, perhaps kin to the Czech novelist and dramatist Vaclav Hladik, whose work Evzen Voldan the Encyclopaedia Britannica judges "a very striking representation of the life of modern Prague".
Fishburn and Hughes: "A fictional character, the protagonist of 'The Secret Miracle', whose writings are referred to in 'Three Versions of Judas'. See Vindicación de la eternidad." (92)
Hler
character in the Prose Edda, also called Aegir
Hoare, Samuel John Gurney, Viscount Templewood
English statesman, 1880-1959
Hobbes, Thomas
English philosopher, 1588-1679, author of Leviathan
Hochigan
god of the bushmen
Hochschule
Fishburn and Hughes: "The German word for a university or its equivalent." (92)
Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande
Kafka story about preparations for a country wedding, written in 1907-08
Hodler, Ferdinand
Swiss painter, 1853-1918
Hoffman, Calvin
US theatrical press agent, ?-1987, author of The Murder of The Man Who Was Shakespeare, 1955
Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus
German romantic novelist and composer, 1776-1822
Hoffnung der Jugend
Esperanza de la juventud, poem by Kurt Heynicke published in Der Sturm in 1919, Borges translation called simply Esperanza
Hofman, Luther
confused reference to Calvin Hoffmann
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
Austrian dramatist and poet, 1874-1929, author of Brief des Lord Chandos and numerous other works, and editor of Die osterreichische Bibliothek
Hofuthlausn
"Head-Ransom," Egil's praise of his enemy Eirik Bloodaxe, included in the Egils Saga
Hogan, Elodie Agnes
Hilaire Belloc's wife, 1868-1914
Hogar paterno, El
Section of Sarmiento autobiography
Hogar Policial
Parodi:" “un diario del Hogar Policial”: referencia a la revista Hogar policial, una de las varias publicaciones periódicas de los diversos distritos de policía locales. El Hogar policial era una entidad de beneficencia dentro del cuerpo de policía, mantenida mediante colectas y donaciones de los ciudadanos" (213).
Hogar Policial
Buenos Aires reformatory
Hogar, El
family magazine for which Borges wrote a book column from 1936 to 1939, and contributed to after that; his articles are collected in Textos Cautivos and Borges en El Hogar
Hogarth, William
English painter and engraver, 1697-1764
Hogben, Lancelot
literary critic, author of Dangerous Thoughts, 1939
Hogg, Ricardo
Author of Yerba vieja (1945)
Hohenems
town in Austria on the Swiss border
Hoja de Alberuela
newspaper
Parodi: "supuesto periódico de alguna de las al menos dos poblaciones de la comunidad autónoma de Aragón que llevan el nombre de Alberuela. La de mayor importancia es Alberuela de Tubo, un municipio de la provincia de Huesca; la otra se denomina Alberuela de la Liena" (439).
Hojas de hierba
Alexander translation of Whitman, 1956
Hojas de hierba
Borges translation of Whitman, 1969
Hojas para la supresión de la realidad
periodical edited by Jacques Reboul, in which Menard published an attack on Valéry
Hokusai, Katsushika
Japanese artist, 1760-1849
Hölderlin
Ronald Peacock book, 1938
Hölderlin, Friedrich
German lyric poet, 1770-1843, author of Hyperion and other poems
Holinshed, Raphael
English chronicler, d. c. 1580, author of The Historie of England and editor of the Chronicle
Holland, Philemon
British physician, writer and trans- lator, 1552-1637.
Fishburn and Hughes: "An English translator of the classics known as the 'Translator-General'. His rendering of Pliny's Historia Naturalis, the first in English, is noted for its exuberance and poetic resonance and is believed to have been used by Shakespeare." (92)
Holland, Robert
English writer who published his third novel in 1936 at the age of eleven
Hollanda, A
Ramalho Ortigão travel book, 1883
Hollander, Lee M.
US scholar of Old Icelandic literature, 1880-1972
Hollow Man, The
Dickson Carr, novel, 1935.
Hollow Men
Eliot poem, 1925
Hollywood
part of Los Angeles where film industry is centered
Hollywood Cemetery
Liam O'Flaherty, 1935
Hollywood Ville-Mirage
Joseph Kessel, 1936
Holmboe, Knud
Knud Valdemar Gylding Holmboe, Danish explorer who converted to Islam, 1902-1931, author of Desert Encounter
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
US author and physician, 1809-94, author of The Autocrat at the Breakfast-Table, The Chambered Nautilus and other works
Holmes, Sherlock
character in detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmgard
old Norse name for Novgorod
Holocausto
Herrera y Reissig poem in Los parques abandonados, 1909
Holofernes
Babylonian general killed by Judith in the Book of Judith
Holstein
region of northern Germany
Holy Ghost: see also Espíritu Santo
Holy Terror, The
H. G. Wells novel, 1939
Holy Writ
here, the infinite Libro de Arena
Holz, Arno
German naturalist poet and playwright, 1863-1929
Homage to Sextus Propertius
Pound poem, 1919
Hombre de éxito, Un
Bustos Domecq film
Hombre de la esquina rosada
Borges story, published as "Hombre de las orillas" in 1933
Hombre de la esquina rosada, El
Film by René Mugica, 1962, based on the Borges's story.
Hombre de los patines, El
tale from Enrique González Tuñón´s El alma de las cosas inanimadas
Hombre de los velorios, El
tale from Enrique González Tuñón's El alma de las cosas inanimadas
Hombre en el umbral, El
Borges story, 1952
Hombre que se comió un autobus
Alfredo Mario Ferreiro book, 1927
Hombre que será presidente, El
collaborative project, never finished, by Macedonio Fernandez, Borges and others
Hombrecito del azulejo, el
Mujica Lainez story
Hombres Azules
blue men, Viking name for the Saracens
Hombres Marinos
mermen of China
Hombres pelearon
early Borges story published in El idioma de los argentinos, later revised as "Hombre de la esquina rosada"
Hombres rubios en nuestros campos
Silva Valdés poem
Hombres sobre la pampa
Pérez Zelaschi, short stories, 1941.
Hombres-Escorpiones
scorpion-men in Gilgamesh
Home of the Free, The
Elmer Rice play, 1918
Home University Library
popular education project directed by Henry Smith Williams
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
Browning poem in Dramatic Lyrics, 1842
Homely Heroine, The
Edna Ferber story
Homenaje a Xul Solar 1887-1963
catalogue of a Xul Solar exhibit in 1963 with a Borges preface, subsequently reprinted in several other catalolgues
Homero
Greek poet to whom the Iliad and Odyssey are traditionally ascribed
Fishburn and Hughes: "Homer (Homero) The first and greatest Greek poet, of Ionian origin, who seems to have lived between the ninth and eighth centuries BC: the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, both of which were transmitted orally (how far our present texts were remodelled by others remains a matter of dispute). According to legend Homer was blind. Nothing is known about him, but the homogeneity of the language and inspiration of the two poems, together with the consistency of their characters, points to a single originator. Borges studied at length the many translations of Homer's poems and discussed their different merits, displaying a partiality for the versions of Pope. He was particularly interested in the range of interpretations that emerge in the translations, and the impossibility of distinguishing, within the text, between what is intrinsically Homer's and what is part of the heritage of language; he concluded that the original meaning of a text could never be recaptured (Homeric Versions, Tl 69). Borges also felt a certain affinity with Homer, no doubt heightened by his blindness; he suggested that Homer, on losing his sight, realised that poetry was his destiny: compelled to look for experience within himself, he gained in inspiration (’The Maker). The Immortal, CF 186: 'those from Zelea, wealthy Trojans...': these 'words of Greek' which the narrator of 'The Immortal' repeats in his delirium, are a quotation from the passage in the Catalogue of ships in the Iliad listing the Trojan allies (2.824-7). The men from Zelea were led by Pandarus to whom Apollo had taught his skill with the bow. Cf 188: an ‘incomprehensible reproof that verged upon remorse’: these words too 'belong to Homer' in so far as they refer to the insinuation of Helen's guilt when, after the abortive duel between Paris and Menelaus, she reprimands Paris for not having fallen on the battlefield Wad 3.385ff.). CF 191: The poem about a war of 'frogs and mice' refers to the mock epic Batrachomyomachia intended as a satire on the Iliad and traditionally attributed to Homer. See Giambattista Vico, Smyrna." (92)
Homme blanc, L'
Jules Romains, 1937
Homme de chair et l'Homme reflet, L'
Hombre de carne y del hombre reflejo, Max Jacob, 1924
Homme élastique, L
Jacques Spitz science fiction novel, 1938
Homme et ses fantômes, L'
Lenormand play, 1924
Homme qui s’est retrouvé, L'
Duvernois novel, 1936
Homme, est-il humain?, L'
Ramon Fernandez essay, 1936
Hommes de bonne volonté, Les
Hombres de buena voluntad, Jules Romains cycle of 28 novels, 1932-1946
Homo atomicus
Murena’s book of essays, 1961.
Honduras
Central American country
Honduras
street in Buenos Aires
Hong Fan
Chinese cosmology revealed to the emperor Yu
Hong Kong
city in southern China, former British possession
Honneur de servir, L'
Henri Massis nationalist tract, 1937
Honor y Patria
Parodi:" “centro espiritista Honor y Patria”: si bien es improbable que haya existido un centro espiritista de ese nombre, sí en cambio había un “Club Sirio Libanés Honor y Patria”, fundado en 1932 por Moisés José Azize, también director del Diario Siriolibanés, de edición bilingüe. En los lujosos salones del club se realizaron centenares de actos en los que fueron recibidas y agasajadas personalidades políticas, eclesiásticas, diplomáticas, científicas, literarias y artísticas. Para espiritismo, cf. “Doce” i §5" (41).
Honour of Israel Gow, The
Chesterton´s short story published in The Innocence of Father Brown, 1911.
Hooker, George
character in Priestley novel based on Gary Coooper
Hop-Frog
Poe story
Hope, Mrs.
character in James's Abasement of the Northmores
Hope, Warren
character in James's Abasement of the Northmores
Hopkins, Edward
Tichborne family lawyer
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
English poet, 1844-89
Parodi: "“la laureada frente de Hopkins”: tal vez se trate de una alusión al sacerdote jesuita, pintor, músico y poeta inglés Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), cuya poesía, que tendió a la fusión de lo narrativo, lo descriptivo y lo dramático, es admirada por Borges (cf. Introducción a la literatura inglesa, OCC II: 368). Fue el Poeta Laureado Robert Bridges quien compiló, anotó y editó póstumamente la obra de Hopkins (Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1918)" (271).
Hopkins, Miriam
US film actress, 1902-1972
Hopwood, Fanny
character in Sadleir's Fanny by Gaslight
Hora de nacer, La
Menén Desleal story
Hora de todos y la fortuna con seso, La
Quevedo satirical work, 1645
Fishburn and Hughes: "A satirical and philosophical work by Quevedo, whose attack on the government of Philip IV led to his banishment. The work is a 'moral fantasy' in which people from different nations and professions face a tribunal of Gods. The passage likened to Don Quixote's well-known debate 'against letters and in favour of arms' is the passage describing the Greeks as 'rich in books and poor in triumphs'. Quevedo regrets the lack of bullets, complaining that all the lead has been used to make letter-moulds for printing more books. ‘Yet,' he argues, 'it was our battles that gave us our empire and our victories.' The most pungent line, and the one which most concisely expresses the spirit of the debate, is 'Nunca se juntó el cuchillo a la pluma que éste no la cortase' ('Never did the sword join the pen without the one cutting the other'), which denies the compatibility of the world of letters with the world of arms (cf. ed. Zaragoza, 1651,125-8)." (93)
Horacio
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Latin poet, 65-8 BC, author of satires, odes and epodes, epistles and an Ars Poetica
Horas campestres
Lugones, section of El libro de los paisajes
Horas doradas, Las
Lugones book of poems, 1922
Horeb
mountain in Bible
Horizon Carré
Huidobro collection of poems in French, 1917
Horla, Le
Collection of nouvelles by Guy de Maupassant (1887).
Hormiga Negra
semi-mythical gaucho, based on Guillermo Hoyo, subject of a novel by Eduardo Gutierrez
Hormiga Negra
street name in Bustos Domecq story
Parodi: "“la Avenida Hormiga Negra”: el nombre de la avenida alude a un personaje histórico, el gaucho y cuchillero Guillermo Hoyo, un célebre héroe marginal, delincuente y perseguido por la justicia, cuya vida fue narrada por Eduardo Gutiérrez (1851-1889) en el popular folletín Hormiga Negra, publicado en 1881" (435).
Hormiga Negra
Eduardo Gutiérrez novel, 1881
Horn, Alfred Aloysius
Ivory trader in Africa, 1861-1931, who wrote a book about the trade
Horn, Holloway
According to the brief biographical note in the Antología de la literatura fantástica, English mathematician born in Brighton in 1901.
Horn, Paul
German Orientalist and philologist, author of Grundriss der iranischen Philologie, 1895, and other works
Hornstrandir
place mentioned in the Grettirs Saga
Horsa
Jutish warrior, brother of Hengist; together they led conquest of England by Jutes in 5th century
Horses of the Conquest, The
Cunninghame Graham, 1930
Horst, George Conrad
German writer, 1769-1832, author of the Zauber-Bibliothek
Hospital Fernández
hospital in Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires
Hospitalario y fiel en su reflejo
Banchs sonnet
Hospitalet
Parodi: "Chateau de l’Hospitalet, un vino reserva tinto elaborado en esa región del sur de Francia" (206).
Hostería
poem by Ricardo Molinari
Hostia al Paso, La
Parodi:" “las cantinas La Hostia al Paso”: comenta Miguel de Torre: “El agnosticismo de Honorio Bustos Domecq y de B. Suárez Lynch, agregado a la saturación que en 1934 les produjo el XXXII Congreso Eucarístico Internacional, con sede en Buenos Aires, los llevó a escribir sobre el Nuncio y el Tigre de la Curia; el poderoso estilo litúrgico de Monseñor De Gubernatis, el tango-milonga El Papa es fija [sic]; las cantinas La Hostia al Paso; el padre Abramowicz, confesor de Fulanita y otras risueñas irreverencias” (231). Sobre el Congreso Eucarístico, cf. “H.B.D.” §3; el Nuncio, cf. “Amistad” §6; el “Lungo Cachaza, el Tigre de la Curia”, cf. “Testigo” §1; De Gubernatis, cf. supra “A manera de Prólogo” §6; el tango-milonga El Papa es una fija, cf. supra §1; el padre Abramowicz confesor de la Princesa Fiodorovna, propietaria de un prostíbulo, cf. “Goliadkin” i §20" (235).
Hotchkis de Estephano
architect, character in Bustos Domecq story
Parodi: "“Hotchkis de Estephano”: supuesto arquitecto que adhería a la construcción de ‘inhabitables’" (297).
Hotel du Nord
Fishburn and Hughes: "According to Borges's Commentaries (Aleph 173 (268)), the Hotel du Nord stands for the Plaza Hotel in Buenos Aires, at the time one of the city's most elegant hotels." (93)
Hotel España
Parodi:" el “Gran Hotel España”, obra del arquitecto español José Arnavat, fue el primer establecimiento construido sobre la Avenida de Mayo, en 1897. En el edificio, uno de los más lujosos de la ciudad, se hospedaron, entre otros, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, José Ortega y Gasset, Ramón del Valle Inclán, y durante el franquismo fue un refugio para muchos exiliados. Actualmente funciona allí el Sindicato de Trabajadores Gastronómicos" (312-13).
Hotel Provincial
large hotel in the center of Mar del Plata
Houdin, Jean Eugene Robert
French conjurer and magician, 1805-1871
Hound and Horn
magazine published in Portland, Maine, from 1927 to 1934
Hound of Heaven, The
Francis Thompson poem, 1893
Hound of the Baskervilles, The
Conan Doyle mystery novel about Sherlock Holmes, 1902
Hourcade, Carolus
French lithographer, friend of Pierre Menard
Hourcade, Pierre
House in Taos, A
Langston Hughes poem, 1926
House of Commons
lower house of British Parliament
House of Eld, The
La casa de los mayores, Stevenson fable
House of Life, The
Rossetti sonnet sequence, 1881
House of Mapuhi, The
Jack London story about the South Seas
House of Rothschild, The
Werker film, 1934
House of Souls
Machen, 1906
House of Suddhoo, The
Kipling story
House of Temperley, The
Conan Doyle, play, 1912.
House of the Seven Gables, The
Hawthorne romance, 1851
House with the Echo, The
T. F. Powys, 1928
House with the Green Shutters, The
George Douglas Brown novel, 1901
Housman, Alfred Edward
English poet and classical scholar, 1859-1936, author of A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems and More Poems
How I Found the Superman
Chesterton, 1909
How I Tried to be a Communist
Richard Wright essay in The God That Failed, 1949
How It Strikes a Contemporary
Browning poem in Men and Women, 1855
How They Met Themselves
Rossetti painting
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Cómo ganar amigos, cómo influir en la gente, Dale Carnegie self-help book, 1936
How to Write
Gertrude Stein, 1931
How To Write Detective Novels
Nigel Morland, 1936
Howard, Leslie
English actor, 1893-1943
Howards End
Forster novel, 1910, here called El fin
Howe, William
British general during the US Revolutionary War, 1729-1814
Howells, William Dean
US novelist, critic and editor, 1837-1920, author of The Rise of Silas Lapham and other works
Hoy
one of Orkney isles
Hoyo, Guillermo
gaucho outlaw, known as Hormiga Negra
Hoyos de Monterrey
Parodi: "cigarros puros, producidos en La Habana" (348).
Hrabano Mauro
Rabanus Maurus Magnentius, German scholar and theologian, c.780-856, author of De universo and De institutione clericorum
Fishburn and Hughes: "Archbishop of Mainz, religious teacher and author of erudite theological texts expounding the views of St Augustine. His religious zeal, reflected in his life and writings, verges on extremism." (93)
Hradcany
palace in Prague
Fishburn and Hughes: "Hradcany A famous castle and landmark in Prague, once the seat of the kings of Bohemia and after 1918 the residence of the President of the Czech Republic." (93)
Hrobfroga
Planes book
Hsi P'eng
character in Borges story
Hsian Tsang
character in Wu Ch'eng-en novel
Hsiang
in Borges poem, the guardian of the book
Hsiang-Lien
character in the Hung Lu Meng or Dream of the Red Chamber
Hsiao
Chinese monster
Hsin, Madame
character in Bustos Domecq story
Parodi: "dama china que administra el Dragón que se aturde, un bar para marineros" (133).
Hsing-hsing
Chinese monster
Hsing-t'ien
Chinese monster
Hsu, Sung-Nien
Chinese scholar, editor of Anthologie de la littérature chinoise, 1932
Hsuang Tsang
Chinese Buddhist monk and traveler, c.605-664, author of the Ta-T'ang-Si-Yu- Ki or Memoirs on Western Countries
Hua
Chinese monster
Huasipungo
Icaza indigenista novel, 1934
Hubo una sola noche entre la mayor ciudad y ninguna
Huc, E. R.
French missionary Catholic priest and traveller, famous for his accounts of China, Tartary and Tibet (1813-1860).
Hucha de Oro (Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorro)
Literary prize awrded by this Spanish organization. The second place is called Hucha de Plata.
Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of
Twain novel, 1885
Hudibras
Butler satirical poem in three parts, 1663- 1678
Hudson, Arthur Palmer
US folklorist, 1892-1978
Hudson, Stephen
British novelist, pseudonym of Sydney Schiff, 1868–1944, author of Myrtle
Hudson, William Henry
English writer, born in Argentina, 1841-1922, author of The Purple Land, El Ombú, Far Away and Long Ago, Green Mansions and numerous other works
Fishburn and Hughes: "A British naturalist and writer born in Buenos Aires who spent his childhood and youth in Argentina on a ranch in close contact with the gauchos. The Purple Land (1885) is a novel set in the Uruguayan pampas, based on episodes of its history and dominated by its geographical setting. The same qualities characterise Hudson's collection of stories El Ombú (1902) and the romance Green Mansions (1904). Borges describes The Purple Land as 'one of the few happy books on earth' (Other Inq. 144). CF 398: reference to a passage from Hudson's The Naturalist in La Plata in which he quotes from Darwin's Journal of the Voyage of HMS Beagle: 'At sea, a person's eye being six feet above the surface of the water, his horizon is two miles and four fifths distant. In like manner, the more level the plain, the more nearly does the horizon approach within these narrow limits; and this, in my opinion, entirely destroys the grandeur which one would have imagined that a vast plain would have possessed.' In Borges's story the memory of the character Espinosa mixes this quotation with another of Hudson's from Far Away and Long Ago (1918) in which, remembering his childhood experience riding in the pampas, he observes that, sitting on a horse, a man can dominate the widest horizon." (93-94)
Hueco de Monserrat
location of ring for cockfighting in eighteenth-century Buenos Aires
Huelga de los poetas, la
Cansinos poetry anthology, 1921
Huellas del Islam: Santo Tomás de Aquino, Turmeda, Pascal, San Juan de la Cruz
Asín y Palacios book on the influence of Islam on Christian thinkers, 1941
Huérfanos, los
painting by Manuel Fernández Peña, 1921
Huergo, Camilo N.
author of El elegido, character in Bustos Domecq story
Parodi: "supuesto escritor, autor del relato El elegido, un anticipo de los experimentos del doctor Narbondo. Apunta Bioy en Borges: 1140: “Corregimos las pruebas del libro. [Crónicas]. A Trejo, de ‘Los inmortales’, le cambiamos el nombre; le ponemos Huergo. Marcelo N. Huergo suena peor que Marcelo N. Trejo. ¿O simplemente yo me había acostumbrado a que se llamara Trejo? Tuve que pedirle a Borges que cambiáramos el nombre porque existe, desde hace poco en mi conciencia, un muchacho Trejo, que trabaja en una versión para el cinematógrafo de La invención de Morel. Podría interpretar el empleo de su nombre como broma o agresión misteriosa”" (330)
Huésped de Oceano
Old English name for the whale
Huevo de tero
Lobatto collection of poems
Hughes, Langston
US poet, 1902-1967, author of Dear Lovely Death, Shakespeare in Harlem and other works
Hughes, Thomas Patrick
English born missionary, 1838-1911, author of the Dictionary of Islam, 1885, amongst many other works
Hugo, Joseph-Leopold-Sigisbert
French general under Napoleon, father of Victor Hugo
Parodi: "Joseph-Leopold-Sigisbert Hugo (1773-1828), fue general del primer imperio napoleónico y padre del poeta y dramaturgo francés Víctor Hugo (1802-1885). Activo en las guerras que siguieron a la Revolución Francesa, en 1806, Joseph-Leopold pasó a servir a José Bonaparte cuando fue nombrado Rey de Nápoles y Sicilia, y en 1808 lo acompañó durante su reinado en España. Además de desempeñar altos cargos militares en Madrid, Hugo actuó como general y gobernador de Ávila, Segovia, Soria, y Guadalajara; por su desempeño se le otorgó el título de Conde de Sigüenza. Ocasionalmente se dedicó a la escritura y publicó varias obras bajo el pseudónimo de ‘Genti’" (440-41).
Hugo, Victor
French poet, dramatist and novelist, 1802-85, author of Hernani, Notre-Dame de Paris, Les Misérables and countless other works
Fishburn and Hughes: "A French poet, author of poetic dramas and novels and one of the leaders of the French Romantic movement. Hugo was also involved in politics. He was a member of the Assembly in 1848 and was exiled for almost twenty years, but finally became a senator of the Third Republic. As a poet Hugo contributed to the innovation of French verse by introducing new themes and diction and new harmonic effects in the use of the stanza. His theatrical work is often based on historical events to which legendary elements are added, as in Hernani (1830). His patriotic sentiments are shown in his famous novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862), as is the pursuit of social and political justice and the theme of moral redemption. Though Hugo's characters are often seen to strive for redemption, thus displaying an affinity with Borges's Fergus Kilpatrick, no reference to the latter has been found in Hugo's poetry." (94)
Hui
Chinese monster
Hui Tzu
Hui Shih, Chinese logician, c.380-c.300
Huidobro, Vicente
Chilean avant-garde poet and novelist, 1893-1948, author of Poemas árticos, Altazor and other works
Huincó
“barro medicinal de Huincó”. The Huincó Hot Springs were founded in 1936 and they were located near the city of Mar del Plata. They served both as a source for mineral water and as thermal baths. (Mentioned in Suárez Lynch novella.)
Parodi: "las Termas de Huincó, en la zona del puerto de Mar del Plata, en la provincia de Buenos Aires, funcionaron durante los años cuarenta y cincuenta como planta embotelladora de agua mineral y como baños termales y medicinales; los manantiales se extinguieron y Huincó pasó a ser sólo un barrio de Mar del Plata" (209).
Huisne
French river
Huit cents devises de cadrans solaires
Boursier book on sundials, 1937
Hull, Edna Mayne
US science fiction writer, 1905-1975, author of Out of the Unknown, The Winged Man and other works
Hull, Richard
British crime writer, 1896-1973
Hulme, Thomas Ernest
iconoclastic English writer, 1883-1917, author of Speculations and The Complete Poetical Works of T. E. Hulme
Humahuaca
street in Buenos Aires
Parodi: 1) "calle que nace en el predio del Mercado de Abasto" (114).
2) "“Agüero esquina Humahuaca”: una esquina frente al Mercado de Abasto (cf. “Doce” i §29) en la que, desde 1907, estuvo ubicado el célebre Café O’Rondeman, un bar de mala fama en el que se inició como cantor Carlos Gardel (cf. “Enfoque” §2). Fue demolido en 2006. La calle Humahuaca es también mencionada en “Limardo” i §11" (324).
Humahuaca, Quebrada de
valley in Jujuy, near Bolivian border
Human Comedy, The
Saroyan novel, 1943
Human Mind, The
Menninger, 1930
Humanité, L'
French newspaper founded by Jean Jaurès in 1904
Humberto I
street in Buenos Aires
Parodi:" la calle Humberto Primero recibe ese nombre en honor a Umberto I de Saboya (1844−1900), que fuera rey de Italia entre 1878 y 1900. Por la gran influencia de la inmigración italiana, no es inusual que se la llame “Humberto Primo”, conservando en el nombre el número ordinal en italiano. Se extiende desde el barrio de San Telmo hasta el de Boedo, ambos al sur de la ciudad" (35).
Humboldt
street in Buenos Aires
Hume, David
Scottish philosopher and historian, 1711-66, author of a Treatise of Human Nature, Dialogues concerning Natural Religion and numerous other works
Fishburn and Hughes: "A Scottish philosopher who, to quote Bertrand Russell, marks, in the history of Western philosophy, the end of the age of reason and the triumph of scepticism. Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius: in his Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) Hume began by accepting the premises of Berkeley and proceeded to demolish them. Whereas Berkeley affirmed that God's perception maintains reality in existence, Hume speaks of the 'probability' of knowledge, referring to the unreliability of any notion empirically derived from inferences which, he asserts, are neither demonstrative nor demonstrable (TL 317). Hume claims that we cannot prove the existence of an objective reality, even though we naturally posit it; all we can affirm is the existence of 'bundles of sensations'. Hume denies the validity of causation, saying that though certain objects or events in our past experience have so far always been related, we cannot conclude from this that they will be related in the future or that they are related in unobserved parts. Hume's sceptical conclusion is that the supposition that the future resembles the past is simply derived from habit (Treatise, book I, part iii, section iv). Hume's scepticism, which finds a passionate echo in Borges (TL 231), extends throughout his system to the point where he discards any practical purpose in philosophy except as an 'agreeable way of passing the time': the narrator of Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' at the end of the story also preserves such a sceptical outlook. Averroës’ Search: Hume's 'remote arguments' can be found in his essay 'On Miracles' where he argues that a phenomenon constitutes a miracle - by definition a breach of a law of nature - only if its 'testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish'." (93)
Humildad
Sureda poem
Humo de incienso
Silva Valdés poem
Humphreys, Christmas
English barrister and writer on Buddhism, 1901-1983, author of Zen Buddhism, The Middle Way and other works
Humpty Dumpty
egg in Mother Goose rhyme, later a character in Lewis Carroll
Hunain ibn-Ishaq
Arabian philosopher of Hira, called Johannitius in Latin, known for his translations of Aristotle
Fishburn and Hughes: "The most important Arab translator of ancient Greek. Bilingual in Syriac and Arabic, he translated Hippocrates and Galen into Arabic and Aristotle into Syriac. He also wrote many original works on medical and philosophical subjects. Ibn-Ishaq belonged to a tribe which had embraced Christianity in the form of Nestorianism, a doctrine which held that there are two separate persons in the incarnate Christ, one divine and the other human." (94)
Hundred Sonnets, A
Phillpotts poems, 1929
Hung Lu Meng. See Sueño del aposento rojo
Fishburn and Hughes: "A Chinese text of the seventeenth century by Ts'ao Chan, reputed to be the greatest novel in China. Originally in eighty chapters, an edition published after the author's death included an extra forty chapters which may have been forged. The novel is the saga of the Chia, an upperclass Chinese family, and has thirty major and four hundred minor characters. Its plot is based on multiple episodes in which fate, psychological motivation, realistic elements and supernatural intervention merge. It was translated into English in 1929 under the title 'The Red Chamber'." (95)
Hungerkünstler, Ein
Artista del hambre, Kafka story about a hunger artist, 1922 and also a collection of short stories, 1924.
Hungria
Hungary
Hungrvaka
Icelandic history of the bishops of Skalaholt in the 11th and 12th centuries
Huns (Hunos)
Fishburn and Hughes: "Nomads who came from east of the river Volga, invading Europe in the fourth century as far as the Danube and establishing an empire in Central Europe. They acquired a reputation for military skill and ferocity, and became rich by exacting tribute from people whose lands they agreed not to plunder. In the fifth century the Huns attacked the eastern Roman Empire, advancing deep into Greece. In 452, led by Attila, they invaded Italy but were finally driven away by famine and plague. On his death, Attila's empire was divided among his sons and its power rapidly disintegrated." (94)
Hunt, Leigh
English poet, critic and journalist, 1784-1859, author of The Story of Rimini
Hurtado sisters
characters in Borges-Levinson story
Hurtado y Mendoza, Diego de
Spanish humanist, historian, poet and diplomat, 1503-1575
Hurtado, Leopoldo
Argentine musicologist, 1894-?
Hus, Jan
Czech religious reformer and theologian, 1369?-1415
Huston, Walter
Canadian actor, 1883-1950
Huxley, Aldous
English writer, 1894-1963
Huxley, Julian
English evolutionary biologist, 1887-1975
Huxley, Leonard
British writer, 1860-1933
Huxley, Thomas Henry
English biologist and educator, 1825-1895, author of The Physical Basis of Life, Man's Place in Nature and other works
Huysmans, Joris Karl
French novelist, 1848-1907, author of A rebours and other works
Hyde, Edward
character in Stevenson novel
Hyde-Lees, Georgie
Englishwoman married to William Butler Yeats, 1892-1962, often known as George Yeats
Hylas
character in Berkeley dialogue
Hymn to God, my God
Donne poem
Hymn to Her, Unknown
Walter Redfern Turner poem
Hymn to Physical Pain
Kipling
Hymnes à l'église
Gertrud von Le Fort poems, 1937
Hypotyposes
Outline of Pyrrhonism by Sextus Empiricus
Hypsenos
mentioned in Homer's Iliad
Hypsinor
character in Homer’s Iliad
Hystaspes
ruler of ancient Persia, 6th century B.C., father of Darius the Great