Talk:Jorge Luis Borges bibliography

Odd link
A graphical interpretation of J.L. Borges The Book of Imaginary Beings: What, if anything, does this have to do with the Borges bibliography? It does not appear to contain any bibliographical information. I figured I'd give someone a chance to explain before I remove it, in case I'm missing something. - Jmabel | Talk 00:02, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Works about Borges
I propose a section of works about Borges. I know there are a number of them, but don't actually read them much. Still, here are some cites. (See http://www.themodernword.com/borges/borges_crit_gen1.html for more)


 * The Narrow Act (subtitle) Borges' Art of Allusion, Ronald Christ, preface by Jorge Luis Borges, New York University Press, 1969 (out of print; 1995 edition from Lumen Press still available)
 * Jorge Luis Borges: Sources and Illumination, Giovanna de Garayalde, Octagon Press, 1978
 * Signs of Borges, Sylvia Molloy, translated by Oscar Montero, Duke University Press, 1993

Comments, objections? --Munge 06:59, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


 * There are probably a hundred or more works about Borges. I don't necessarily object, but a mere listing will be just that: a listing. What is encyclopedic about that? -- Jmabel | Talk 02:36, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Confusion
This now says "Stories are listed by the collection in which they first appeared in English", but clearly the publication information and dates is for Spanish-language publication. For example, Garden of Forking Paths is listed as 1941; even its title story was not translated into English for two decades after that. - Jmabel | Talk 17:59, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It's been four weeks, this is not fixed, I am removing the statement I believe to be mistaken. - Jmabel | Talk 22:05, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Errors
Some dates don't jive. "El Sur" is listed as 1941 and 1944 on the main Borges page. This one lists it as being part of Ficciones (it was) but not being published for the first time until 1953. We need some clarification at the very least.Wuapinmon (talk) 21:02, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I figured it out. Although "El sur" is now located in Ficciones, its inclusion didn't happen until 1956, according to the Borges Center's Bibliography. It was first published in 1953 in Sur.

La Nación. 2a secc. Bs.As., 08/02/1953.

BORGES, JORGE LUIS: "El sur". pág. 1. Ficc 1956, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, etc. - AntPer 1961 Wuapinmon (talk) 21:57, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Ficciones
Has anyone suggested that the title may have something to do with Hans {"as if") Vaihinger's concept of Fictions? Jagdfeld (talk) 15:55, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Atlas
This page lists "Atlas" as one of Borges works (his last, actually), but I'm not sure about its validity..googling around got me here, which looks kinda legit, that's definitely Kodama & Borges on the cover. The first site says 1986, the second 1985, so I'm still sceptical.

"In this heterogeneous ATLAS, Jorge Luis Borges creates a personal geography out of prose, verse, dreams, and photos collected during the blind poet's journeys around the world. The artist's reflections and associations are triggered by such diverse places and events as streets in Buenos Aires or Mallorca, a balloon ride in California, a piazza in Rome, a monster in Iceland, even a brioche. Borges charts a voyage which, disparate and fragmented like the world it describes, is also transformed by his notion of time that is both collapsed and infinite. As in his other slim, unconventional masterpiece, DREAMTIGERS, Borges confounds traditional genres in this literary scrapbook. Part journal, part fantasy, part "found object," ATLAS proves again that art need not be only a representation of reality but an integral part of it.

Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential writers of this century, was horn in 1899 in Buenos Aires into an intellectual, middle-class family whose ancestors struggled for Argentine independence. He was educated in Geneva and traveled in Spain before returning to Buenos Aires, where his first works were published in 1923. Borges has received the highest literary honors from the U.S.A., Israel, Italy, Germany, Spain, Mexico, and France, among other countries and has been awarded countless honorary degrees from the world's most prestigious universities. At age 86, he proudly proclaims himself a poet, an anarchist, and a cosmopolitan."

Upon further googling, I found it at a bookstore here in Sweden, so it's probably legit. If anyone has it, and they could confirm the year (85 or 86) we could add it to the list.

Oh dear
What a mess! Spanglej (talk) 21:50, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I just finished converting the plaintext list that was at Italo Calvino, into a table. Would anyone want a similar monstrosity over here? (It would take a few days, so no rush either way...) -- Quiddity (talk) 23:19, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The primary benefit would seem to be sortability. I see the appeal of sorting by year of publication, but that can be done with plaintext chronological order, and I don't see the attraction of alphabetizing titles and translators...  Skomorokh   23:23, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, I have just removed the "sortability" class from most of the tables at Calvino! They seemed cluttering...
 * I mainly did the reformat from text-to-table so that I could find which books have been translated into English, and by whom, more easily.
 * However, I see here, that the translated works section is already split off, and very short. That's good, because it saves me from investing more hours of eye-melting cut&pasting; but it's bad, because I was secretly hoping there was a whole trove of volumes I hadn't stumbled upon yet... (I prefer trawling used stores, and dislike purchasing online). It seems I've already amassed a majority of the available works :(
 * Never mind, ignore me :) -- Quiddity (talk) 02:22, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

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