Borges Links
- At July 29, 2018
- By Great Quail
- In Borges
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A translucent network of minimal surprises
Borges Links
A simple Google search reveals hundreds of Borges-related sites, blogs, museum exhibits, artistic projects, and reflections on the Web. This page collects a few links to some of the larger and more important sites, along with a few curiosities and unique projects. Links to Borges-related interviews, reviews, articles, academic papers, music, and film are all found under their relevant sections; check the pull-down menu for details.
Major Borges Resources
Obras completas 1923-1974
This PDF version of Emecé Editors’ “Complete Works 1923-1974” is 1170 pages long, and contains all of Borges’ published books from Fervor de Buenos Aires to El oro de los tigres, including Historia universal de la infamia, Ficciones, Otras inquiciones, and El hacedor. [Spanish]
Obras completas 1975-1985
This PDF version of Emecé Editors’ “Complete Works 1975-1985” is 520 pages long, and contains all of Borges’ published books from El libro de arena to Los conjurados, including La memoria de Shakespeare and Atlas, the latter reproduced without María Kodama’s photographs. [Spanish]
Mapping Borges In the Argentine Publishing Industry
Nora Benedict’s ambitious project offers an interactive map of publishers, employers, and other sites related to Borges from 1930–1951. It also features an illustrated bibliography.
Dictionary of Borges
This compendium was written in 1990 by Evelyn Fishburn and Psiche Hughes, and contains forewords by Mario Vargas Llosa and Anthony Burgess. Organized in alphabetical order, the Dictionary of Borges is an heroic attempt to source Borges’ many quotations and allusions. It is available as a PDF hosted by the Borges Center.
Borges: Selected Study Materials on the Web
Ralph Dumain’s page of Borges links is impressively extensive!
Oye Borges
This site is a massive Borges resource, with hundreds of articles and photographs. While the Garden of Forking Paths may be the oldest Borges site on the Web, Oye Borges is unquestionably the largest and most comprehensive! [Spanish]
Borges-Related Organizations and Journals
Borges Center
Based from the University Pittsburgh, the Borges Center is dedicated to the research of works by Borges, the study of themes and the style of thinking found in his work, and the compilation and translation of works by and about Borges.
Variaciones Borges
Published by the Borges Center, Variaciones Borges “is a journal of philosophy, semiotics and literature, published twice a year in Spanish, English and French by the University of Pittsburgh. Fantastic ontologies, synchronic genealogies, utopian grammars, fictional geographies, multiple universal histories, logical bestiaries, ornithological syllogisms, narrative ethics, imaginary mathematics, theological thrillers, nostalgic geometries and invented remembrances converge to justify the epithet ‘Borgesian’ for a special area of academic research, in which philosophy appears as perplexity, thought as conjecture, and poetry as the deepest form of rationality.” Past issues are available on JSTOR.
Fundación Internacional Jorge Luis Borges
Established by María Kodama in 1988, this Borges organization is based in Buenos Aires and is dedicated to disseminating and translating the works of Borges. [Spanish]
Libraries and Special Collections
University of Virginia Special Collection
Maintained by the University of Virginia, this site is dedicated to the University’s Borges holdings, “more than two thousand individual items in virtually all formats, spanning Borges’ career of sixty-five years. The collection’s depth is unsurpassed, and many items it contains are quite rare.” The Web site contains a few digitized versions of some drawings made by Borges.
Notre Dame Borges Collection
The University of Notre Dame has a very useful page detailing their Borges collection, including a set of poem cards and the rare LP Borges por él mismo.
Revista Multicolor de los Sábados
This amazing archive holds downloadable PDFs of Crítica’s “Saturday Multicolor Magazine.” Borges edited and wrote for this colorful supplement in the mid 1930s, and it’s where some of his first fictions were published. [Spanish]
Other Borges Sites
English
Wikipedia Borges Entry
The Borges page at Wikipedia.
The Marginalian
Maria Popova’s fabulous site “The Marginalian” often features commentary and reviews of Borges material.
Vaguely Borgesian
A now-defunct blog run by “Larry,” Vaguely Borgesian is a wonderful exploration of “non-genre fiction/non-fiction and posts on languages and culture.” The author has written extensively on Borges, and maintains the popular “Of Blog.”
The Destiny of Borges
Norbert Blei hosts a very tidy biography of Borges at his Poetry Dispatch blog.
The Floating Library
This wonderful literary site features the text of Dreamtigers.
GSF&FW Borges site
From the Great Science Fiction and Fantasy Works site, this page details the fantastical elements in Borges’ writing.
The Garden of Jorge Luis Borges
A page by Paul M. Willenberg, this site explores some of Borges’s work from a critical dimension. (It has not been updated in a long time; and uses an older version of our Borges biography without credit.)
Poet-Hero: Jorge Luis Borges
By Jeff Trussell, this page focuses primarily on his work as a poet, and is part of the “My Hero” program.
Spanish
Borges en el museo de la novela de la eterna
A Borges page by Ana María Rivera Salazar. [Spanish]
Borges todo el año
“Borges All Year Long” collects interviews, articles, and Borgesian texts, and boasts a Twitter account. [Spanish]
Projects Inspired by Borges
Zweite Enzyklopädie von Tlön
An ambitious project to “reconstruct the Second Encyclopaedia of Tlön. We see the compilation of the right keywords (there is only one keyword per volume) and their interconnection as an important prerequisite for success.”
Goodbrey’s “Aleph” Flash Movie
An abridged retelling of “The Aleph,” Daniel Merlin Goodbrey’s ingenious Flash movie is an interactive experience that really pays off at the climax! Try this!
The Interactive Book of Sand
Max Clarke’s hypertext takes Borges’ Book of Sand and puzzles it up as eight as randomly numbered pages, which the reader must put in the “correct” order.
Light-Sensitive “Mutations”
Hanna Piotrowska’s photosensitive edition of Borges’ “Mutations” essay destroys itself upon reading!
The Borges Library
An interactive word-puzzle composed of every word Borges ever wrote in Spanish and English.
Borges Prezi Presentation
Chance McLeod’s Prezi on “The Garden of Forking Paths.”
Temas de matemática en la obra de Borges
Guillermo Martínez details the many allusions and references to mathematics in Borges’ work. [Spanish]
Art Inspired by Borges
The Hokes Archive
The brainchild of Professor Beauvais Lyons, the Hokes Archive is a collection of artwork and artifacts of “forgotten archeology.” One of his primary inspirations is “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.”
The Secret Books
Sean Kernan’s homepage, this photographer created a Borges-inspired collection of photos called The Secret Books.
Imaginary Being Masks
Trained at the Massachusetts College of Art, metalsmith Kest Schwartzman is “embarking on a journey to make a mask for every creature in the 1969 version of Borges’ The Book of Imaginary Beings.”
Borges In the Arts
Maintained by the Borges Center, this page holds “Way Back” archives of amazing Borgesian projects from the Vakalo School of Art and Design in Athens.
The Library of Babel
A review of a Japanese art exhibition using Borges’ story as its inspiration.
A Surreal Visitor
Guy Rundle details Borges’ trip to Melbourne, Australia.
The Library of Babel
Created by Jonathan Basile, The Library of Babel “is a place for scholars to do research, for artists and writers to seek inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of humor to reflect on the weirdness of existence.”
Caitlin Legault as Emma Zunz
Photographer Alex Waterhouse-Hayward’s beautiful recreation of Caitlin Metisse Legault as Emma Zunz.
Tangents
The Gorgeous Art of Norah Borges
Maria Popova looks at the art of Borges’ younger sister Norah Borges.
Ricardo Piglia’s Borges Seminar
An “open class” on Jorge Luis Borges by Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia. [Spanish]
¡Fervor de Buenos Aires!
Finding Borges
A private walking tour of Buenos Aires focusing on Borges-related places.
Finding Borges: Two Companions
Rebecca DeWald takes few recent books about Borges on a literary tour through Buenos Aires.
Borges’s Buenos Aires: A City Populated by a Native Son’s Imagination
New York Times, 2006 May 14. Larry Rohter describes his trip to Buenos Aires.
Espacio Borges: Biblioteca Miguel Cané
The Web site for the Miguel Cané Library. Once Borges’ spiritual prison, this beautiful library has been restored, and now offers numerous Borges exhibits. [Spanish]
Xul Solar Museum
The artist Xul Solar was an associate of Borges; his works may be seen on the museum’s Web page.
Latin-American Organizations and Journals
The Americas Society Cultural Affairs
The Americas Society, located in new York City, is dedicated to promoting Latin American affairs in the United States.
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas
This journal “is the major U.S. forum for contemporary Latin American and Caribbean writing in English and English translation; it also covers Canadian writing and visual and performing arts in the Americas. Founded in 1968 by the Center for Inter-American Relations (later known as the Americas Society), Review is now published by Routledge in association with The City College of New York.”
Latin American Literary Review
The Latin American Literary Review “is a scholarly journal devoted to the literature of Latin America and Brazil. It is published semiannually in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Latin American Literary Review’s purpose has been to provide the academic community with a firsthand interpretation of Latin American literature and culture through feature essays and reviews of recent ‘literary’ works.”
Other Journals
“A Pandemonium of Medieval Borges”
Issue 47.1 of the Old English Newsletter (2021) was entirely devoted to Borges. The issue contains nine essays about Borges, largely focusing on his fascination with Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian literature.
Editor: Allen B. Ruch
Last Modified: 28 August 2024
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