Monthly Archives for November 2012
Borges
El sur Juan Dahlman, the main character of Jorge Luis Borges’ El sur, is a character that lives within fantasy; within the fantasy of literature in general but particularly Argentine literature. (I will come back to the Argentine literature.) He lives surrounded by books. He works as a secretary in a municipal library and, not … Continue reading Continue reading
Borges
El sur Juan Dahlman, the main character of Jorge Luis Borges’ El sur, is a character that lives within fantasy; within the fantasy of literature in general but particularly Argentine literature. (I will come back to the Argentine literature.) He lives surrounded by books. He works as a secretary in a municipal library and, not … Continue reading Continue reading
Borges
A text of Borges is always hard to approach. And this is not an exemption. This story has so many elements that make hard to select some of them to talk about. I will try. I think that one of … Continue reading Continue reading
Borges
A text of Borges is always hard to approach. And this is not an exemption. This story has so many elements that make hard to select some of them to talk about. I will try. I think that one of … Continue reading Continue reading
El Sur
Seamless Subsubsubjectivity Quixote Voyage life southdeath, boat, cabs, train, steps, errante two men at once hybrid criollo doublings/splittings two lineages, two deaths, dreams and fantasies/reality Catriel fighting for both sides, the passion – time scarlet past and the present pink … Continue reading Continue reading
El Sur
Seamless Subsubsubjectivity Quixote Voyage life southdeath, boat, cabs, train, steps, errante two men at once hybrid criollo doublings/splittings two lineages, two deaths, dreams and fantasies/reality Catriel fighting for both sides, the passion – time scarlet past and the present pink … Continue reading Continue reading
El Sur
«A la realidad le gustan las simetrías y los leves anacronismos.» Borges always overwhelms me a little. The thing is that his tales are so full of symbolism, intertextuality and every other kind of outside reference that every written line flows with meaning and reading possibilities. The South is no exception. Where to focus? What […] Continue reading
Impressions on “The South” by Borges
In the story The South by Jorge Luis Borges, the protagonist, Juan Dahlmann, is brought to believe, by the play of his subconcious, that he dies a glorious death in a knife fight under the open southern sky, while he, … Continue reading Continue reading
Borges – “The South”
Borges’ story “The South” is difficult to understand upon first glance. After reading it, I honestly did not grasp its meaning or the message it was attempting to transmit. I needed to read it a second time in order to … Continue reading Continue reading
Borges – “The South”
Borges’ story “The South” is difficult to understand upon first glance. After reading it, I honestly did not grasp its meaning or the message it was attempting to transmit. I needed to read it a second time in order to … Continue reading Continue reading
