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- Jorge Luis Borges in Context
- Jorge Luis Borges in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Note on Primary Sources and Editions Used
- Chronology
- Note on Translations and Abbreviations
- Introduction Borges in Context, Context in Borges
- Part I Self, Family, and the Argentine Nation
- Chapter 1 Borges and the Question of Argentine Identity
- Chapter 2 Borges and the Banda Oriental
- Chapter 3 Borges in Person: Family, Love, and Sex
- Chapter 4 Jorge Luis Borges’s Fictions and the Two World Wars
- Chapter 5 Dictatorship and Writing (1976–1983)
- Chapter 6 The Public Author and Democracy (1984–1986)
- Chapter 7 Borges and Las Islas Malvinas
- Chapter 8 Borges and Sarmiento
- Chapter 9 Borges and the Gauchesque
- Chapter 10 1920s Buenos Aires
- Chapter 11 Borges and the Argentine Avant-Garde
- Chapter 12 The Argentine Writer and Tradition
- Chapter 13 Borges, Tangos, and Milongas
- Chapter 14 Borges and Bioy Casares
- Chapter 15 Borges and Popular Culture
- Chapter 16 Argentine Responses: César Aira and Ricardo Piglia
- Part II The Western Canon, the East, Contexts of Reception
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 10 - 1920s Buenos Aires
from Part I - Self, Family, and the Argentine Nation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2020
- Jorge Luis Borges in Context
- Jorge Luis Borges in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Note on Primary Sources and Editions Used
- Chronology
- Note on Translations and Abbreviations
- Introduction Borges in Context, Context in Borges
- Part I Self, Family, and the Argentine Nation
- Chapter 1 Borges and the Question of Argentine Identity
- Chapter 2 Borges and the Banda Oriental
- Chapter 3 Borges in Person: Family, Love, and Sex
- Chapter 4 Jorge Luis Borges’s Fictions and the Two World Wars
- Chapter 5 Dictatorship and Writing (1976–1983)
- Chapter 6 The Public Author and Democracy (1984–1986)
- Chapter 7 Borges and Las Islas Malvinas
- Chapter 8 Borges and Sarmiento
- Chapter 9 Borges and the Gauchesque
- Chapter 10 1920s Buenos Aires
- Chapter 11 Borges and the Argentine Avant-Garde
- Chapter 12 The Argentine Writer and Tradition
- Chapter 13 Borges, Tangos, and Milongas
- Chapter 14 Borges and Bioy Casares
- Chapter 15 Borges and Popular Culture
- Chapter 16 Argentine Responses: César Aira and Ricardo Piglia
- Part II The Western Canon, the East, Contexts of Reception
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Back in Buenos Aires in 1921 after time spent in Europe, Borges set about creating a mythology for his native city in the throes of modernisation. The ideological dimension of this project was ’criollismo’: a reconstruction of a city half-imagined, half remembered. Through the workings of metonymy, Buenos Aires also doubled for the nation of Argentina. Key texts in this regard include ’The Complaint of all Criollos’ and the volume of poetry, ’Fervour of Buenos Aires’, also echoed in the later poem, ’The Mythological Foundation of Buenos Aires’. In a comparative context, Borges’s work is more in tune with contemporary architect, Alberto Prebisch, than the painter, Xul Solar.
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- Jorge Luis Borges in Context , pp. 83 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020