Wabash Avenue
important avenue in Chicago
important avenue in Chicago
Norman-French priest and poet from isle of Jersey, c.1100-1174, author of the Roman de Brut, 1155
pseudonym of Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 1887-1969, mystery writer
English artist associated with Vorticism and surrealism, 1889-1949
folksinger in Vicksburg, Mississippi jail
German composer for the opera, 1813-83
Kafka, 1931.
English scholar of mysticism, born in the United States, 1857-1942, author of books on Kabbalah, Tarot, Rosicrucianism, the Holy Grail
Fishburn and Hughes: "English mystical writer whose Secret Docrine in Israel (1913), later incorporated into The Holy Kabbalah (1930), is considered one of the most authoritative attempts to analyse the symbolism of the Zohar (see G. Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, 1961)." (209)
Hawthorne short story
character in Hawthorne story
Stapledon, 1934
Thoreau memoir and essay, 1854
pond near Concord, Massachusetts
pseud. of Georg Lewin, German avant garde poet and musician, 1875-1941
Old English epic poem, fragments of which are preserved in the Royal Library at Copenhagen
English Orientalist, 1889-1966, translator of The Tale of Genji, Confucius, Noh drama, the Pillow Book, Li Po, Monkey and numerous other works, and editor of an anthology of Chinese poetry
English cleric, d. 1098, bishop of Winchester
street in New York City, center of financial district
Fishburn and Hughes: "The headquarters of the main US banks and financial organisations and the site of the New York Stock Exhange." (209)
English Catholic intellectual, 1908-1974, translator of Jacques Maritain
English novelist and playwright, known particularly for his crime and adventure fiction, 1875-1932
Parodi: (1875−1932) escritor y periodista británico, autor de más de ochenta novelas policiales y de misterio escritas entre 1905 y 1932.
Döblin novel, 1920
Bohemian general and politician, 1583-1634
father of Hugh Walpole
English novelist, 1884-1941
Meyrink novel set in Prague, 1917
Martínez Estrada poem
5th century West Gothic hero, subject of the Waltharius
Latin poem about Walther of Aquitaine and Attila, attributed to Ekkehard, a monk of St. Gall
Austrian lyric poet, 1170-c.1230, author of various Minnelieder and Spruche
English writer, 1593-1683, author of The Compleat Angler
Old English poem in the Exeter Book
character in Chinese fable
Chinese philosopher, 27-97, author of the Lun Heng
Chinese travel writer, author of a miscellany, 1791
Translator of Dream of the Red Chamber.
neighborhood in east London, in the Docklands
Crane book of poems, 1899
Wells science fiction novel, 1898
English bishop and author, 1698-1779, editor of and collaborator with Pope
pseud. of Charles Farrar Browne, US humorist, 1834-67
young Englishman, character in Borges text on the Malvinas war
street in Buenos Aires
Fishburn and Hughes: "An avenue in central Buenos Aires near Villa Crespo, a commercial district known at one time for its predominantly lower-middle-class Jewish population." (209-10)
Parodi: “ahora que usted procedió a la recolección en Warnes”: equivale a ‘ahora que usted recogió su automóvil en un basural, como chatarra’. ‘Warnes’ hace referencia a un edificio ubicado en el barrio de La Paternal, creado en 1950 por la Fundación Evita con la intención de construir un Hospital de Niños, proyecto que quedó inconcluso. El edificio sin terminar se convirtió en lugar de hacinamiento y vivienda precaria, rodeado por un vasto vertedero de basura.
Feuchtwanger play, 1915
US novelist, poet and critic, 1905-1989, author of All the King's Men, Night Rider, World Enough and Time and other works
Fishburn and Hughes: "A quotation from the novel Rebellion in the Backlands (1902) by Euclides Da Cunha. The paragraph from which it is taken describes the religious fervour and asceticism of the followers of Antonio Conselheiro in Canudos. The author comments that their lack of concern for material things 'carried far enough...led to the loss of high moral qualities...': 'To Antonio Conselheiro...strength of character was something like a form of vanity, it was almost an impiety', for 'it implied a forgetfulness of the marvellous longed-for beyond. His depressed moral sense was only capable of understanding the latter in contrast to sufferings endured' (trans. Samuel Putnam, University of Chicago, 1944,150)." (210)
Buber essay, 1938
line in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
capital of United States
state in United States
Wells, 1922
U. S. president, 1732-1799
Pseud. of Gustavo Martínez Zuviría, Argentine novelist, 1883-1962
Eliot long poem, 1922
Swinburne poem
James novella, 1871
hero in the Gudrun
British scholar, 1888-1927, author of a Short History of German Literature
town near Brussels, site of battle between British and French forces in 1815
Parodi: “papel Wathman” [sic]: papel de alta calidad, empleado para ediciones de lujo. El nombre del papel es Whatman.
character in Conan Doyle's stories about Sherlock Holmes
Fishburn and Hughes: "An oblique reference to Dr Watson, the chronicler in Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes whose simplicity serves as a foil to the ingenuity of the master sleuth. The first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet (1887), was presented as 'a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., late of the Army Medical Department', with illustrations by D.H. Friston. It begins with a brief sketch of Watson's early career. Conan Doyle was himself a doctor in general practice." (210)
British writer on Zen Buddhism, 1915-1973, author of The Way of Zen
English painter and sculptor, 1817-1904, subject of a book by Chesterton
Waugh travel book, 1936
English writer, 1903-1966
city in Illinois
Woolf novel, 1931
Dickson Carr, novel, 1932.
Dickson Carr, novel, 1932.
Samuel Butler novel, 1903
Watts study, 1971
mosque in Lahore
No estamos solos, James Hilton novel, 1937
Caldwell collection of short stories, 1933
Langston Hughes poem
English theologian, 1893-1976, author of After Death, 1942
author of Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic, 1921
German Orientalist, 1825-1901, author of Indische Streifen, 1850, and Indische Skizzen, 1857
German composer and pianist, 1786-1826
Hauptmann play about weavers, 1892
character in Bustos Domecq story
English dramatist, 1580?-1634, author of The Duchess of Malfi and other works
James Barrie play, 1900
character in Borges story
character in Hladík's verse drama Los enemigos
scholar of Russian literature, 1875-1979
Michael Innes, novel, 1943.
German Orientalist, 1808-1889, author of Biblische Legenden der Musulmanner and translator of the Arabian Nights and the Koran
Fishburn and Hughes: "A German historian and orientalist, author of the best-known German translation of the Thousand and One Nights, published in four volumes in Stuttgart, 1837-41. This edition is illustrated with 2,000 drawings and ornamental vignettes by F. Gross." (210)
city in Germany
unfinished Stevenson novel, 1896
characters in Shakespeare's Macbeth
Hauptmann play about Cortés and Moctezuma, 1912-1917
Sabiduría del Brahmán, Friedrich Rückert book, 1835-36
editor of 1924 edition of Schopenhauer's Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
French town in Alsace, on German border
legendary maker of swords, subject of the Volundarkvitha and other Germanic poems, also known as Welund, Volundr and Volund
Tennyson poem, 1863, written on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Alexandra to the Prince of Wales, future Edward VII
Uruguayan poet and writer, 1900-46
US actor and film director, 1915-1985, director of Citizen Kane and many other works
Dorothy Violet Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, English poet and literary editor, 1889-1956
school in Berkshire, founded in 1853
British soldier and statesman, 1769-1852
English author and social thinker, 1866-1946, author of The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Country of the Blind, The Shape of Things to Come, The World of William Clissold, Outline of History and numerous other works
Parodi: “Wells rioplatense, remonto la corriente del tiempo”: alusión al escritor británico Herbert George Wells (1866−1946) y a su novela The Time Machine (1895) (cf. también Modelo ii §50). Wells fue autor de una obra múltiple; algunos títulos: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The First Men in the Moon (1901); Tono−Bungay (1909), The Bulpington of Blup (1932).
Schopenhauer philosophical work, 1819
Graebner, 1924
citizen of the world, here applied to Xul Solar
Franz Werfel poems, 1911
US forester, 1878-1952, author of The Farm Woodlot: a handbook of forestry for the farmer and the student in agriculture, 1914, here cited as an expert on the Squonk resident in St. Anthony Park, Minnesota
German philosopher, 1862-1942, author of books on Chinese thought, ethics, Nietzsche
Austrian writer, born in Prague, 1890-1945, author of Der Weltfreund, Juarez und Maximilian, Das Lied von Bernadotte and numerous other works
Parodi: Franz Werfel (1890-1945) fue un poeta, novelista y autor dramático austro-checo. Publicó poesías, novelas y dramas: Spiegelmensch (El hombre del espejo, 1920) y Juarez und Maximilian (1925), fueron comentados por Borges 1946 (cf. “Franz Werfel”, TR2: 244-246). Su renombre creció en 1933 con la publicación de Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh (Los Cuarenta Días de Musa Dagh), una novela que denuncia el genocidio armenio por parte de los turcos. En 1937 destaca Borges: “A pesar de su odio a la guerra, Werfel se batió con valor en el frente de Rusia, durante los años que fueron de 1914 a 1918. ‘Quiero conquistar mi derecho a maldecir de la guerra’, declaró en una carta publicada en la revista pacifista Die Aktion. Desde 1919, Werfel se ha establecido en Viena. ‘Todavía’, escribe, ‘sigo empeñado en la desesperada tarea de que los hombres desaprendan el odio’.” (“Franz Werfel” Cautivos 279).
Jalal-uddin, see Mathnawi
Novalis
British diplomat (1864-1954) and sinologist specializing in superstition, myths and magic in China. Author of Myths and Legends in China.
American journalist (1897-1981) and writer in the fields of history, biography and current events. Author of Brigham Young (1925), among other works.
Argentine social realist writer, 1915-68
one of kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon Britain
Old High German alliterative poem and prose prayer, c.775
Phillpotts, essays, 1928.
section of London best known for its theaters
United States military academy, located in New York state
English journalist
US vaudeville, theater and film actress, 1893-1980, also a novelist
English novelist and critic, 1892-1983, author of The Return of the Stranger, The Strange Necessity and other works
bar in Bustos Domecq story
Parodi: un local ubicado en el barrio de Once donde orquestas de señoritas tocaban tango. Es mencionado también en “Ojo” §7.
Westphalia, region of northwestern Germany
bridge in London
county of northwestern England
character in Powys novel
Nevil Shute novel, 1938
Chesterton travel book, 1922
William James, 1904
James novel, 1897
Willard Huntington Wright study, 1914
English prelate and writer, 1787-1863, author of Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Bonaparte
English writer, 1897-1977
Fishburn and Hughes: "A universal symbol. The Theologians: its circular form, without beginning or end, has been used as an emblem of eternity, 'monotony' and the recurrence of events. The Inmortal: in some Hindu religions, as well as being the weapon of the god Vishnu and the 'mandala' or axis of the earth and centre of energy, the wheel is also the 'kala chakra', symbol of the continuation of life through multiple individual manifestations, and of alternating patterns of destruction and rebirth, marked by the inward and outward breath of Brahma. Brahma is also refered to as 'Wheel'. The Writing of the God: a symbol of perfect totality, the wheel can allude to the Divinity present in its creation." (210)
British folklorist and writer, 1849-1956, author of The Sacred Scriptures of Japan and collections of folk tales of Hawaii, Albania, Ethiopia and other places
English historian, 1902-1975
Wells novel, 1896
Shakespeare, sonnet 2
Whitman poem in "Calamus" section of Leaves of Grass, 1860
Vinieron las lluvias, Louis Bromfield book about India, 1932
Lines from Shakespeare's Sonnet 30
Saki’s novel, 1913.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A quotation from Shakespeare's Othello (V:ii:356), from the concluding speech in which Othello, before stabbing himself, remembers his past deeds." (210-11)
Forster novel, 1905
O'Neill play, 1918
May Sinclair story in Uncanny Stories, 1923
Shakespeare line said by Banquo, Macbeth I.vi
Qué camino a la paz, Bertrand Russell, 1936
US painter, graphic artist, wit and eccentric, 1834-1903
Conan Doyle, novel, 1891.
Jack London, novel, 1906.
mythical figure, subject of book by Robert Graves
Graves essay on myth and poetry, 1948
character in Carroll's Through the Looking Glass
birthplace of Erskine Caldwell, near Moreland, Georgia
T. F. Powys, 1930
D. H. Lawrence novel, 1911
Arthur Machen novel, 1899
character in Carroll's Through the Looking Glass
character in Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
US Episcopal bishop and theologian, 1748-1836
former palace in London, now used to talk about the government center
English mathematician and philosopher, 1861-1947, author of Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, Symbolism and other works
character in Wells's The Holy Terror
US poet, 1819-1892, author of Leaves of Grass
Fishburn and Hughes: "An American poet, author of Leaves of Grass, which was first published in 1855 and revised and enlarged in several subsequent editions. Borges, who translated and wrote an essay on Whitman, admired the 'effusive and orgiastic' quality of his poetry and his celebration of life (Other Inq. 66). He compared Whitman to Adam, saying that he looked at the world as if for the first time. In Soergel's work there are several mentions of Whitman, as well as a separate entry on the poet." (211)
US poet and social reformer, 1807-1892, author of Snow-Bound and other works
Robert W. Jameson, 1852
Otto Eisenschiml book, 1937
Old English poem in Exeter Book
Arrullo, poem by Kurt Heynicke, from Gottes Geigen, 1922
French Jesuit missionary and scholar, 1856-1933, author of Vies chinoises du Bouddha
German poet and novelist, 1733-1813, author of Geschichte des Agathon, Oberon and other works
city in Germany
Wells novel, 1914
character in Wells's A Propos of Dolores
German historian who specialized in ancient world, 1862-1944
character in Bustos Domecq story
Argentine writer, 1919-1978, known for his works in Spanish and Italian
Tierra salvaje, Padraic Colum book of poems, 1907
Faulkner novel, 1939, translated by Borges
suburb of Buenos Aires
Parodi: “de la órbita de Don Bosco, vale de Wilde”: la ciudad de Wilde, colindante con la de Don Bosco, está ubicada en el partido de Avellaneda. Wilde es estación ferroviaria de la línea General Roca en el ramal Constitución-La Plata. La ciudad de Don Bosco, ubicada al noreste del partido de Quilmes, es también estación del Ferrocarril Roca, en el mismo ramal que Wilde.
Argentine writer and political figure, 1844-1913
Argentine memorialist, 1813-85, author of Buenos Aires desde setenta años atras, 1881
Irish poet, playwright, essayist and wit, 1854-1900, author of The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salomé, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, De Profundis and numerous other works
Fishburn and Hughes: "An Irish poet and playwright, famous for his wit. Borges said that it is hard for us to imagine the universe without Wilde's epigrams, but that this does not make them less plausible (TL 314). Borges's long-standing interest in Wilde dates from the age of seven when he translated The Happy Prince into Spanish; his admiration is expressed in 'About Oscar Wilde', where he lists sayings by Wilde which have led him to the conclusion that Wilde 'is almost always right'. Some of the aphorisms mentioned are: that music reveals to us an unknown and perhaps real past; that 'all men kill the thing they love'; that to repent of an act is to modify the past; and that there is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been or what he will be (TL 315)." (211)
US novelist and playwright, 1897-1975, author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Skin of Our Teeth and other works
Goethe novel, 1796
king of Prussia and emperor of Germany, 1859-1941
German Orientalist, 1842-1923, author of works on ancient Assyria
German sinologist, theologian, and missionary (1873-1930).
Eliot essay, 1927
Havelock Ellis studies, 1931
English mathematician, scientist and bishop, 1614-1672, author of Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, The Discovery of a World in the Moon and other works
Fishburn and Hughes: "An English bishop who began his career as chaplain at the court of Charles I. Later he was a strong supporter of Cromwell, who appointed him Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Deprived of this post at the Restoration, Wilkins nevertheless became bishop of Chester. He was interested in science and became one of the founders, and the first secretary, of the Royal Society. He wrote an unusual work on the possibility of life in the moon and a book entitled An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668 In the latter work Wilkins develops the possibility of a universal language based on the principle that reality can be divided into arbitrary categories whose members can be systematically renamed from words with the same roots. Borges speaks of the fascination that this project holds for him because of its totally arbitrary nature and, above all, its attempt to schematise and rationalise an otherwise chaotic and incomprehensible reality (TL 229). See Descartes, Leibniz." (211)
character in Paltock's Peter Wilkins
William James book, 1897
character in Wells novel
Nietzsche unfinished treatise
Austrian actress and dancer, 1784-1860
Chesterton study, 1910
William the Third of England, 1650-1702
Hugo essay, 1864
Poe story, 1839
pseud. of Thomas Lanier Williams, US playwright, 1914-1983, author of Streetcar Named Desire and numerous other works
section of Brooklyn, New York
British writer, 1875-1958, expert on Chinese folklore
city in Delaware
U. S. president, 1856-1924
city in Wiltshire, England
county in southwestern England
character in Dorothy Sayers's crime fiction
Otokar Brezina poetry anthology with translations by Emil Saudek and Franz Werfel, 1920
Yeats book of poems, 1933
Barrie
Santayana, 1913
Anderson novel, 1916
Van Wyck Brooks, 1908
Anderson stories, 1923
legendary Swiss hero
Hemingway collection of short stories, 1933
German religious scholar, 1863-1937, author of Der Mahayana-Buddhismus, Religion und Moral and other works
character in Borges story
governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1588-1649
Werfel poems, 1913
Se castigará con la muerte, Heinz Liepmann novel, 1935
state in United States
French journalist, literary critic and writer
Charles Lamb story
Anglo-Argentine photographer, 1835-1905, founder of a photo studio of the same name in Buenos Aires
Parodi: en 1878, Alejandro Witcomb (Londres, 1835-Buenos Aires, 1905) llegó a la Argentina e instaló un taller de fotografía (la Galería Witcomb) en la calle Florida 364, un establecimiento de gran prestigio social que, a lo largo de casi un siglo, retrató a la alta sociedad porteña y registró múltiples aspectos de la vida de la ciudad. La galería, que en 1939 se mudó a su nueva sede de Florida 760, fue un espacio abierto a cientos de exposiciones de arte argentino y europeo, muchas de ellas memorables por la alta calidad y cantidad de las obras expuestas. La empresa siguió funcionando hasta 1970, año en que la colección fotográfica de la casa -calculada en más de medio millón de negativos- pasó a formar parte del Archivo General de la Nación. Un año más tarde, una severa crisis económica obligó a cerrar sus puertas.
Wordsworth poem, 1807
Lord Alfred Douglas continuation of his autobiography, 1938
British humorist, 1881-1975
German philologist and critic, 1759- 1824, author of Prolegomena ad Homerum and Darstellung der Altertumswissenschaft
Middle High German poem about Theodoric the Great, preserved only in part
British writer, 1885-1940, author of Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton, 1920
Parodi: Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940) escritor inglés de familia judía, nacido en Italia, fue autor de poemas, crítico teatral y literario, traductor, autor de obras dramáticas y ensayista. Su obra poética abarca más de cuarenta títulos.
US novelist, 1900-1938
German critic and writer, 1868-1943
German poet, c. 1170-c. 1220, author of Parzival
German writer, 1869-1948, friend of Stefan George, author of Sang aus dem Exil and other works and co-editor of Deutsche Dichtung and Alteste deutsche Dichtungen
German-born character actor in Hollywood films, 1880-1931
Belloc, 1930
Cardinal who advised Henry VIII on his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, 1473-1530
La mujer en la puerta, George Warwick Deeping, 1937
Collins novel, 1860
Play written in collaboration by Elmer Rice and Dorothy Parker, also known as Close Harmony, 1924
Wilder novel, 1930
Aldington, 1934
Hawthorne, short story collection, 1851.
Isaac Goldberg, 1938
Mather book on the Salem witches and on the operations of devils, 1693
Phillpotts, 1937
El caballo de madera, Walpole, 1915
English politician, novelist and essayist, 1880-1969, co-owner of Hogarth Press, run with wife Virginia Woolf, author of Imperialism and Civilisation, After the Deluge, and Barbarians at the Gate
English novelist and essayist, 1882- 1941, author of Orlando, To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One's Own, an extensive diary and other works
Charles Louis Dessoulavy, 1917
Fishburn and Hughes: "Hamlet's answer to Polonius' question, 'What do you read, my lord?' (Hamlet II:ii:193)." (211)
English romantic poet and critic, 1770-1850, co-author of the Lyrical Ballads and author of The Prelude and numerous other works
Joyce title for early published fragments of Finnegans Wake
town in Cumbria, England
the first volume of Jonson's dramatic works, published in 1616, much ridiculed at the time because plays were not considered serious literature
Taylor edition, 1817
Royce philosophical work, 1900-1901
Warren novel, 1950
Van Vogt science fiction, 1948
Havelock Ellis study, 1911
Van Wyck Brooks study, 1915
Wells novel, 1926
Eric Partridge, 1938
Time-Life book, 1957
city in Germany
Mauthner work on the philosophy of language, 2 vols., 1910, revised and expanded edition, 1923-24
Canadian-American actress in King Kong and other films, 1907-2004
Stevenson-Osbourne novel, 1892.
character in Borges story
US architect, 1869-1959
Parodi: “las fulminaciones de Gropius y de Wright”: el alemán Walter Gropius (1883-1969) y el estadounidense Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959), dos arquitectos de fama internacional fueron grandes renovadores de la arquitectura del siglo xx. Wright es célebre por su concepto de la arquitectura orgánica, la funcionalidad de sus diseños, las viviendas estrechamente ligadas a su entorno, su nuevo concepto en los espacios interiores sin cerramientos, los 'módulos' de construcción estandarizados, las viviendas de estructuras modulares, geométricas y de líneas rectas, un estilo que influyó profundamente en Gropius. Walter Gropius fue un arquitecto, urbanista y diseñador alemán, fundador de la famosa escuela de diseño Bauhaus, que dirigió entre 1919 y 1928. En la Bauhaus se formaban arquitectos, pintores, escultores, artesanos (ceramistas, herreros, carpinteros, tejedores, decoradores, etc.), según el concepto de integración de las artes en la arquitectura. La obra de Gropius fue revolucionaria por las nuevas tecnologías de construcción, por los materiales empleados, por el diseño, la inserción social de la arquitectura, el acercamiento al ser humano, conceptos todos tan opuestos al nacionalismo de Hitler, que éste ordenó la clausura de la escuela en 1933.
US writer, 1908-1960, author of Native Son, Black Boy and other works
biographer of Richard Burton, 1906
US art critic and, under the pseudonym of S. S. Van Dine, mystery writer, 1888-1939, and, under his own name, author of Modern Painting and other works; see also Van Dine
English man of letters, 1836-1914, editor of works of Shakespeare and Fitzgerald
W. Somerset Maugham, 1949.
Escritura de Yákub Jan, Kipling, 1899
De Quincey collected works, edited by David Masson, 1889-1890
Fishburn and Hughes: see De Quincey
Belgian scholar of medieval philosophy, 1867-1947
area of southwestern Germany
city in Franconia, Germany, where Leonhard Frank was born
Emily Brontë novel, 1847
English religious reformer, c.1328-1384, whose followers were responsible for the Wyclif Bible, the first full translation of the Vulgate Bible into English
Work by American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) published in 1879.
state in United States