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Chapter 3 - Borges in Person: Family, Love, and Sex

from Part I - Self, Family, and the Argentine Nation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2020

By
Edwin Williamson
Edited by
Robin Fiddian
Robin Fiddian
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Acknowledges the weight, on Borges, of a family history spanning events in the history of South America and the consolidation of the Argentine nation. Experiences in love from his years as a teenager, then in Buenos Aires in the 1920s and 1930s and after, leave their mark on fictions including ’The Aleph’, ’The Secret Miracle’, and ’The Zahir’. In the later collection ’Brodie’s Report’, family and personal relations shape key narratives. Finally, Borges achieves stability with María Kodama before his death in Geneva in 1986.

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forebearsArgentinapersonal relationsliterary credo
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Jorge Luis Borges in Context , pp. 26 - 34
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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