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Variaciones Borges is a journal devoted to the work of Jorge Luis Borges, published twice a year in Spanish, English and French by the University of Pittsburgh. Reaching beyond pure exegeses of Borges's writings, the journal aims to explore the special style of thinking, writing and reading in which Borges excelled. Fantastic ontologies, synchronic genealogies, utopian grammars, fictional geographies, multiple universal histories, logical bestiaries, ornithological syllogisms, narrative ethics, imaginary mathematics, theological thrillers, nostalgic geometries and invented remembrances converge to justify a special area of academic research, in which philosophy appears as perplexity, thought as conjecture, and poetry as the deepest form of rationality. Selected articles from past issues of the journal are available in the section Borges Criticism.

Variaciones Borges 56

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Mariela Blanco, Antonio Cajero, Carlos García, José María Gil, Ricki O'Rawe, Juan Torbidoni, Francisco García Jurado, Clara Berdot, Wes Henricksen, Noah Gabriel Singer and Martín Kohan. 

Variaciones Borges 55

Variaciones Borges 55

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Marta Spagnuolo, Alfredo Alonso Estenoz, Roberto Andrés Talavera Pagán, Luis Miguel Isava, José R. Vilahomat, Marina Debattista, Antonio Baeza-Henríquez, Naiara Sales Araújo, David J. Hart, Xiao Xuyu, Michael Dirschel, Kelvin Durán Berríos, Christopher O. Badillo Cabrera, Carlos García

Variaciones Borges 54

Variaciones Borges 54

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Daniel Fitzgerald, Ornela Lizalde, Philip Lavender, Max Ubelaker Andrade, Jaime Campomar, Gustavo Faverón Patriau, María Julia Rossi, Robin Lefere, Shubert Silveira, Antonio Cajero Vázquez, Umberto Luiz Miele, João Albuquerque, Touria Oulehri, Russell Scott Valentino

Variaciones Borges 53

Variaciones Borges 53

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Javier Roberto González, Robin Lefere, Audrey Harris Fernández, Daniel Balderston, Fermín Rodríguez, Alfredo Alonso Estenoz, Adriano Schwartz, Kleber Roberto Pirota, Ariel Arjona, Alexander James Gannuscio, Franco Cavagnaro Farfán

Variaciones Borges 52, on the notebooks Borges used for preparing his classes from 1949 to 1955

Variaciones Borges 52

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Daniel Fitzgerald, Philip Lavender, Nesrin Karavar, Marina Martín, Magdalena Cámpora, Luis Othoniel Rosa, Emron Esplin, Jerónimo Pizarro, Daniel Balderston, Sol Martinic, Ornela Lizalde, Alfredo Alonso Estenoz, Mariela Blanco, Rocío Colman Serra

Variaciones Borges 51

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Daniel Balderston, Natalia D'Alessandro, Marta Spagnuolo, Pablo Maurette, John Hoffmeyer, Víctor Bravo, Alexander J. Gannunscio, Martin E. Turkis II, Alejandra M. Salinas, Aníbal Jarkowski, Christopher Warnes y Ricardo Vázquez, Mireya Camurati, Diego Alonso

Variaciones Borges 50

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Mohssine Fathi, Abdellah Romli, Amina Achour, Abdelfattah Kilito, Zohra Lhioui, Hassan Fathi, Évanghélia Stead, El Mostafa Chadli, Ahmed Ararou, Touria Oulehri, Federico Calle Jordá, Alejandra M. Salinas. Julio Premat, Stella Pinot, Mohamed Hichou, Luis O. Arata, Bernadette Rey Mimoso-Ruiz, Federico Favali.

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Variaciones Borges 49

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Cristina Parodi & Iván Almeida, Gonzalo Aguilar, Sylvia Saítta, Camilla Cattarulla, Nora Benedict, Mariela Blanco, Leonardo Pitlevnik, Javier de Navascués, Mariano García, Mónica Bueno, María del Carmen Marengo, Marina Martín, Hernán Martínez Millán

Variaciones Borges 48

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Víctor Vich, Fabián Darío Mosquera, Lucía Campanella, Marta Spagnuolo, Mariano García, Kevin Dorman & Emron Esplin, Mehmet İlgürel, Alma BolónJuan David Cruz Duarte, Gabriel Schreiber, Ephraim Schreiber, Sofia Avissar & Demian Halperin, Álvaro Arango Vallejo, Carlos GarcíaLuis Gusman, Alfredo Alonso Estenoz

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Variaciones Borges 47

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Patricio Fontana, Christopher D. Warnes Pacheco, Manuela Barral, José J. Álvarez, Matteo Maselli, María Sanabria Barba and Bill Richardson, Nicolás Coria Nogueira, Leonardo Pitlevnik, Manuel J. Pérez Pérez, Mireya Camurati, Matt Johnson, Marcelo Abadi

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Variaciones Borges 46

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Sylvia Saítta, Leonardo Pitlevnik, Sebastián Urli, Alberto Manguel, Laura Rosato and Germán Álvarez, María Julia Rossi, Martín Gaspar, Daniel Balderston, Mariela Blanco, Luigi Patruno, Daniela Dorfman, Jonathan Basile

Variaciones Borges 45

Variaciones Borges 45

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Lou Yu, Newton de Castro Pontes, Juan Carlos Vásquez Pérez, Matteo Maselli, Edgar Luis Colón, Alejandra M. Salinas, Linda Maier, Daniel Balderston, Nora Benedict, Itzel Patricia Ortega Hernández, Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla, Jorge Luis Borges and Evelyn Fishburn.

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Variaciones Borges 44

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Ângela Fernandes, Magdalena López, Sergio Delgado, Vicente Cervera Salinas, Alfredo Alonso Estenoz, Evelyn Fishburn, Gabriel Magalhães, Isabel Araújo Branco, Sonia Miceli, Fernando Pinto do Amaral, Daniel Attala, Marcelo N. Abadi, Diego Tatián, Yitzhak Lewis, Cecilia Beaudoin and Brian Steele.

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Variaciones Borges 43

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David Laraway, David Klein, Alberto Rojo, Eduardo Romano, John Turci-Escobar, Mariela Blanco, Martín Gaspar, Laura Juárez, Francisco Álvez Francese, Javier de Navascués, Héctor Gonzalo Ana Dobratinich and Vincenzo Dell'Oro

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Variaciones Borges 42

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Alfredo Alonso Estenoz, Bécquer Seguín, Mariela Blanco, Daniel Fitzgerald, Rocío Colman Serra, Jesús Eduardo Morales, Arturo Ruíz Mautino, Omar Vargas, April Schmidt, Antonio Jiménez Morato, Germán Maggiori, Daniel Balderston

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Variaciones Borges 41

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Lucas Martín Adur Nobile, Jay Corwin, Newton de Castro Pontes, Rebecca Kosick, Francisco Pérez Marsilla, Iryna Orlova, Charles Li, Xosé Pereira-Boán, Gustavo Quintero, Ariel de la Fuente, Robert Lima, Reina Roffé, Mariano Shifman

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Variaciones Borges 40

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Patricio Ferrari, Diego Giménez and Roberto Rolandone, Fabrizio Boscaglia, Sandra Bettencourt, Pedro Javier Pérez López, Alberto Giordano, Bairon Oswaldo Vélez Escallón, Jason A. Bartles, Robin Lefere, Amy Frazier-Yoder, Antonio Munir Hachemi Guerrero, and Leah Leone.

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Variaciones Borges 39

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Ana Peluffo, Julio Premat, Edna Aizenberg, Laura Cesarco Eglin, Rosario Hubert, Jairo Antonio Hoyos. Carolyn Fornoff, Nora C. Benedict, Leah Leone, Álvaro A. Bernal, Júlio Pimentel Pinto, Mireya Camurati, Alberto Rojo, and Mike Gonzalez. 

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Variaciones Borges 38

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Sebastián Hernaiz, Candelaria Barbeira, Martín Pérez Calarco, Sabrina Salomón, Daniel Balderston, Juan Pablo Canala, Antonio Cajero Vázquez, Alfredo Alonso Estenoz, Alexander San Francisco, Daniel Fitzgerald, María Laura Bocaz Leiva, Sandra Fernández Gómez, and Laura Rosato and Germán Álvarez.

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Variaciones Borges 37

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Phillip Lavender, Natalia Biancotto, Rodolfo Ortiz, Walfrido Dorta Sánchez, Daniel Balderston, Diego Alonso, Álvaro A. Bernal, Wladimir Chávez Vaca, Sebastián Urli, Mariela Blanco, Cristina Parodi, Edna Aizenberg

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Variaciones Borges 36 (Print Sold Out)

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Brigitte Adriaensen and Lies Wijnterp, Susanne Klengel, Magdalena Cámpora, Marcy Schwartz, María Eugenia Mudrovcic, Alfredo Alonso Estenoz, Silvia Dapía, Daniel Balderston, José María Gil, Alberto Rojo, Mehmet Ilgurel, Antonio Cajero Vázquez, Rosa Pellicer, Cody Hanson, Mireya Camurati, Sebastián Urli, Dardo Scavino and Christopher Davies

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Variaciones Borges 35

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Mariela Blanco, Iván Almeida, Noé Jitrik, Osmar Sánchez, Gabriel Linares, Elisa Calabrese, Mónica Bueno, Yitzhak Lewis, Ana C. Cara, Vicente Cervera Salinas, Ariel de la Fuente, Clelia Moure, María del Carmen Marengo, Elisa Molina, Jorge Monteleone, Donald A. Yates

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Variaciones Borges 34 (Print Sold Out)

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Iván Almeida, Nora Catelli, David J. Hart, Donald L. Shaw, María Julia Rossi, Amy Frazier-Yoder, Daniel Giraldo, Max Ubelaker Andrade, Humberto R. Núñez Faraco, Diemo Landgraf, Wladimir Chávez Vaca, Linda Maier.

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Variaciones Borges 33

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Bill Richardson, Evelyn Fishburn, Marcelo Abadi, Edna Aizenberg, Daniel Balderston, Davi Arrigucci Jr., Sonia Betancort Santos, Gastón Cosentino, Francisca Noguerol Jiménez, Lucas Martín Adur Nóbile, Antonio Cajero Vázquez, María Laura Bocaz Leiva, Eduardo Becerra

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Variaciones Borges 32

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Carina González, Alfredo Alonso Estenoz, Daniel Balderston, William Rowlandson, Sandeep Sreekumar, Sergio Waisman, Julián Ezquerra, Mark Frisch, Júlio Pimentel Pinto, Luis Hernán Castañeda, Linda Maier, Donald A. Yates, Yania Suárez

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Variaciones Borges 31

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John Turci-Escobar, Nicolás Lucero, Claudio Celso Alano da Cruz, James Irby, Nora Catelli, Alfredo Alonso Estenoz, Evelyn Fishburn, Daniel Balderston, Leah Leone, Jeff Lawrence, Ali Shehzad Zaidi, Júlio Pimentel Pinto, Mireya Camurati, Gordon Brotherston, Marina Martín, Gabriel Roel

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Variaciones Borges 30

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Fernando Degiovanni & Guillermo Toscano y García, Bill Richardson, Marlene Gottlieb, Martín Batalla, Román Facundo Espino, Daniel Nemrava, Andrea Miller, David Ricardo Ramírez, Jorge Martin, Daniel Lorca, Curtis Tuckey, Aashish Kaul, Donald A. Yates

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Variaciones Borges 29

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Bruno Bosteels, Julio Prieto, Alma Bolón, Rex Butler, Mariano García, Victoria Pineda, Francisco Javier Avilés, Iana Konstantinova, Alan Pauls

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Variaciones Borges 28

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Diego Vecchio, Michel Lafon, Daniel Balderston, Carlos Gamerro, Anna Brigido Corachán, Robin Fiddian, Arturo Matute Castro, Ximena Postigo, Silvia Dapía, Hernán Martínez Millán, Carlos Mario Mejía, Camilo Hernández Castellanos, Rubén H. Ríos, J. Andrew Brown, David Thaler

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Variaciones Borges 27

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Alfredo Alonso Estenoz, Cristina Parodi, Gonzalo Aguilar, Judith Podlubne, Claudia Rosa, Nicolás Lucero, Samuel Monder, Mireya Camurati, Rosa Pellicer, Guillermo Siles, Daniel Zavala, Leila Gómez, Donald L. Shaw, Martín Kohan

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Variaciones Borges 26

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Herbert E. Craig, Camilo Bogoya, Marcelo Pellegrini, Patricia Novillo-Corvalán, Antonio Cajero, Marta Spagnuolo, Sergio Waisman, Pablo Brescia, Aparecida de Fátima Bueno, Todd S. Garth and Heather Dubnick, Antoine Ventura, Rafael Arce

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Variaciones Borges 25

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John Durham Peters, Ivan Almeida, Evelyn Fishburn, Edna Aizenberg, Bruno Carvalho, Haiqing Sun, Mac Williams, Ximena Briceño, Margarita Saona, Mariana C. Zinni, Valentina Camps, Carla Raffo, Leah Leone

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Variaciones Borges 24

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Julio Premat, Diego Alonso, Juan Carlos Orrego, Laura Demaría, Mariano Siskind, Margaret Schwartz, Cristina Parodi, David Oubiña, Andrés Forero, Buzz Spector, Garrett Stewart, Elvio Gandolfo, Antonio Cajero

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Variaciones Borges 23

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Liliana Weinberg, Marcy Schwartz, Alejandra Laera, Alfredo Alonso Estenoz, David Bird, Mariela Blanco, Julio Woscoboinik, Carlos Rojas, Kane X. Faucher, Shlomy Mualem, Daniel Balderston, Pedro Granados, Vincenzo dell'Oro

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Variaciones Borges 22

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Edna Aizenberg, Haiqing Sun, Luis Miguel Isava, Andrew Hurley, Ricardo Héctor Rabitti, Antonio Cajero, Thomas McEnaney, Luis Othoniel Rosa, Juan Pablo Dabove, Erin Graff Zivin, Ana B. Rodríguez, Kirsten Mahlke, Raúl Bueno, Rafael Olea Franco, María del Carmen Marengo

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Variaciones Borges 21 (Print Sold out)

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Julio Premat, Silvia Dapia, Emilio J. García Pozo, Shlomy Mualem, Alfredo Alonso Estenoz, Daniel Balderston, Jerónimo Ledesma, Reinaldo Laddaga, Hugo Chaparro Valderrama

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Variaciones Borges 20

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Cristina Parodi & Ivan Almeida, Rosa Pellicer, Edna Aizenberg, Gisle Selnes, Elena García Martín, Cristina Parodi & Ivan Almeida, Ricardo Waizbort & Lucia de la Rocque, Alma Bolón, Ivan Almeida, Júlio Pimentel Pinto, Julio Prieto, Gabriel Riera, Francisco García Jurado

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Variaciones Borges 19

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Silvia G. Kurlat Ares, W. L. G. Bloch, Ariel de la Fuente, Noé Jitrik, Howard Giskin, Daniel Mesa Gancedo, Mercedes Blanco, Judith Podlubne, Nataly Tcherepashenets, Jorge Martin, Robin Lefere, Marta Spagnuolo, Ronaldo Assunção, Gustavo Beade, Ana Camblong, Carmen Santander

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Variaciones Borges 18

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Daniel Mesa Gancedo, Evelyn Fishburn, Marina Martín, Gisle Selnes, Cristina Parodi, Francisco García Jurado, Ivan Almeida, Ethan Weed, Blas Matamoro, Shlomy Mualem, Eleni Kafala, Miguel de Torre Borges, Gustavo Beade, Ana Camblong, Ignacio Infante

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Variaciones Borges 17 (Print Sold out)

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Jean-Philippe Barnabé, Alejandro Riberi, Eduardo Guízar, Evelyn Fishburn, Kane X. Faucher, Marta Inés Waldegaray, Humberto Nuñez-Faraco, León Deneb, Alicia Chibán, Lorena Amaro Castro, Dana Cook

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Variaciones Borges 16 (Print Sold out)

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Cristián De Nápoli, Daniel Balderston, Martín Kohan, Nataly Tcherepashenets, Marta Spagnuolo, José Ramírez del Río, Gisle Selnes, Eleni Kefala, Cristina Percoco, Elisa Calabrese, Michael Y. Bennett, Jonathan Wichmann, Miguel de Torre Borges, Andrzej Sobol-Jurczykowski, Ivan Almeida, Vincenzo Dell’Oro

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Variaciones Borges 15

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Ivan Almeida y Cristina Parodi, Marcelo Abadi, Mercedes Blanco, Alan White, Rosa Pellicer, Marina Martín, Horacio E. Lona, Nicolás Helft, Ivan Almeida, Alejandro Riberi, Cristina Parodi & Ivan Almeida

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Variaciones Borges 14

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Silvia Rosman, Francisco García Jurado, Ivan Almeida, Shlomy Mualem, Linda S. Maier, Enrique Camilo Corti, Patricia Willson, Humberto Núñez Faraco, Ahmed Ararou, Daniel Balderston, Alma Bolón, Pablo Martín Ruiz, Fernando Sorrentino

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Variaciones Borges 13

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Marina Martín, Fernando Marinho & Ney Marinho, Shlomy Mualem, Adrian Gargett, Juan Pablo Neyret, Kane X. Faucher, Zohra Lhioui, Noemí Ulla, Cristina Parodi, Ana Camblong, Ivan Almeida

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Variaciones Borges 12 (Print Sold out)

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Evelyn Fishburn, Rosa Pellicer, Ana Camblong, Larry Lefkowitz, Cristina Parodi, Ivan Almeida, Rosa Pellicer, Kane X. Faucher, Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones, Rebecca N. Stephanis, Ana María Portugal M. Saliba, Ignacio Infante, Alicia Chibán

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Variaciones Borges 11 (Print Sold out)

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François Rastier, Ana Camblong, Gabriel Schreiber & Roberto Umansky, Marta Gallo, Barbara Alfano, Carlos García, Jean-François Daveti, Ivan Almeida, Hanne Klinting, Donald A. Yates

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Variaciones Borges 10 (Print Sold out)

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Rosa Pellicer, Alfonso García Morales, Jorge Hernández Martín, Saúl Sosnowski, Mercedes Blanco, Ramsey Lawrence, Blas Matamoro, Pablo A. J. Brescia, María del Carmen Marengo, Juan Duchesne Winter, María Esther Maciel, David A. Bedford, Ivan Almeida, Rémi Champseix

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Variaciones Borges 9 (Print sold out)

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Mercedes Blanco, Aníbal Jarkowski, Sergio Gabriel Waisman, Sylvia Saítta, Sergio Pastormelo, Herbert H. Knecht, Marina Martín, Ivan Almeida, Anders Johansson, Sandra Contreras, Robin Lefere, Blas Matamoro, Fabiana Sabsay-Herrera, Marcelo Abadi, Arnaldo Calveyra

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Variaciones Borges 8 (Print sold out)

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Saúl Yurkievich, Ivan Almeida, Sylvia Molloy, Rafael Cansinos Assens, Adrián Gorelik, David Oubiña, Julio Pimentel Pinto, Alma Bolón Pedretti, Ivan Almeida, Carlos Alberto Zito, Flora Pescador Monagas, Marcelo Abadi, Adrián Nazareno Bravi, Julie James, Horacio E. Lona, Jesús Aguilar, Carlos García, Daniel Balderston, Vincenzo Dell’Oro, Juan José Gómez Cadenas

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Variaciones Borges 7 (Print Sold out)

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Juan Arana, Darío González, Jon Stewart, Ivan Almeida, Laurent Nicolas, Silvia G. Dapía, Marcelo Abadi, Ezequiel de Olaso, William Woof, Beatriz Sarlo, Maria Esther Marciel, Florence L. Yudin, Miguel de Torre Borges

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Variaciones Borges 6 (Print sold out)

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Jorge Hernández Martín, Ivan Almeida, Cristina Parodi, Hanne Klinting, Alma Bolón Pedretti, Juan Arana, Eneida Maria de Souza, Hector Yankelvich, Carlos García, Adrián Nazareno Bravi, Vardan Hayrapetyan, Leiser Madanes, Ezequiel de Olaso, David Michael Slater, Vincenzo Dell’Oro

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Variaciones Borges 5 (Print Sold out)

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Ivan Almeida, María Elena Arenas Cruz, Louis Marin, Michal Sapir, Floyd Merrell, Alma Bolón Pedretti, Hector Yankelvich, Alma Bolón Pedretti, Fabiana Sbsay-Herrera, Marcelo Abadi, Nada Elia, Evelyn Fishburn, Silvia G. Dapía, Martin Johnston, Mario H. Gradowczyk, David Michael Slater, Alma Bolón Pedretti & Cristina Parodi, Annick Louis, Carlos García

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Variaciones Borges 4

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Mercedes Blanco, Umberto Eco, Alberto Giordano, Ivan Almeida, Floyd Merrell, Annick Louis, Hector Yanekvich, Patricia Fox, Carlos Meneses, Damian Searls, Carlos García, Pablo Urbanyi, Arnaldo Calveyra, Julio Woscoboinik

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Variaciones Borges 3 (Print Sold out)

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Sergio Pastormerlo, Ricardo Piglia, Ana María Barrenechea, Beatriz Sarlo, María Teresa Gramuglio, Floyd Merrell, Elmar Schenkel, Ivan Almeida, Peter Standish, Roger Chartier, Darío González, Edna Aizenberg, Lisa Block de Behar, Jaime Alazraki, Carlos García, Victoria Navarro

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Variaciones Borges 2

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Djelal Kadir, Ivan Almeida, Cristina Parodi, Sigrún Eiríksdóttir, Hanne Klinting, Jon Stewart, Ebtehal Younes, Silvia G. Dapía, Cristina Grau, Daniel Balderston, Annick Louis, Daniel Mesa Gancedo, Raúl Antelo, Carlos García, Alejandro Vaccaro, Hans-George Ruprecht, Silvia G. Dapía, Annick Louis, Cristina Parodi

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Variaciones Borges 1

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Piero Ricci, José Fernández Vega, Ivan Almeida, Franca Mariani, Svend Østergård, Michel Lafon, Allen Ruch, Daniel Balderston