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In his essay "The Argentine Writer and Tradition" (1951), Borges celebrates how Hernández expresses the Argentine character. In a key scene in the poem, Martín Fierro and El Moreno compete by improvising songs on universal themes such as time, night, and the sea, reflecting the real-world gaucho tradition of payadas , improvised musical ...
Labyrinths (1962, 1964, 1970, 1983) is a collection of short stories and essays by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett.
María Hortensia Lacau (1910-2006), Argentine pedagogue, writer, essayist, poet, educator; Leónidas Lamborghini (1927–2009) Osvaldo Lamborghini (1940–1985) Jorge Lanata (born 1960) Héctor Libertella (1945–2006) Gloria Lisé (born 1961) Leopoldo Lugones (1874–1938) Benito Lynch (1885–1951)
Argentine literature, i.e. the set of literary works produced by writers who originated from Argentina, is one of the most prolific, relevant and influential in the whole Spanish speaking world, with renowned writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Leopoldo Lugones and Ernesto Sábato.
Molar with the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Ben Molar (3 October 1915 – 25 April 2015) was an Argentine author, composer, musical producer, and talent scout. He created the National Day of the Tango, held annually on 11 December, placed bronze plaques on all 40 corners of Calle Corrientes and produced an interdisciplinary artistic project that combined art, poetry, and music to ...
This anthology of Argentine writers, edited by Borges, contains three pieces overtly by Borges, but also contains three short Borgesian literary forgeries, "Un hijo de Moreira", "Otra versión del Fausto", and "Las leyes del juego." Libro de sueños, 1976, mostly translations and paraphrases of short excerpts from world literature. Some are ...
What do you think of Borges' reasoning—namely, that the song competition about universal themes reflects the real Argentine tradition, and that Hernández knew this very well and deliberately inserted it so as to pay tribute to the authentic tradition, as distinct from the supposedly artificial gauchesque style that was, according to Borges ...
Because Martín Fierro has been widely considered (beginning with Leopoldo Lugones's El Payador, 1916) the fountainhead or pinnacle of Argentine literature, Argentina's Don Quixote or Divine Comedy, and because Borges was certainly Argentina's greatest twentieth-century writer, Borges's 1953 book of essays about the poem and its critical and ...