Bolatín de Una Noche, 1924-1926

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
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Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
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Summary

Creator:
Jorge Luis Borges
Language:
Spanish

Background

Scope and content:

This two-page autograph manuscript, ca. 1924-1926, "Bolatín de una noche" ("report on a night") by Jorges Luis Borges, written in Spanish and corrected by the author, was intended as an essay in El Idiona de los Argentinosbut was apparently rejected and never published. Borges "writes of returning home, immersed in sleep and silence. His sense of being alone and enveloped in the house's deep darkness induces him to reflect on his own being. But here the tone of his questioning is not influenced by the concept of duality, but is rather overwhelmingly laced through with the idealist philosophy..." [ Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3. (Autumn 1973) Jorges Luis Borges Number. Donald A. Yates, "Behind 'Borges and I,'" pages 317-324].

Acquisition information:
This manuscript was purchased by the Library from Serendipity Books on June 16, 1989.
Physical description:
This collection contains a two-page manuscript.