"De Alguien a Nadie"

Containers:

Box 1, Folder 25

Scope and content:

Holograph manuscript "From Someone to No One" by Jorge Luis Borges, signed in black ink on gridded notebook paper, numbered by Borges. With deletions and interpolations. The manuscript is an essay that first appeared in the march 1950 issue of Sur, reprinted in Borges's Otras Inquisciones (1952) and Antologia Personal (1961). It describes the paradox, which applies to gods as well as men, of a consuming ambition which can only be based on personal annihilation.

It is a critically significant text, with numerous alterations which are valuable for their content, as it relates aspects of Borges' complex views on Man and divitnity (an important theme for him). This text was well known at the time that it was published.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Subjects:

Manuscripts (documents)

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