Defeat and Victory of the Pagan Gods: The Deaths of Thor and Odin in Two Borges Manuscripts
This essay studies the draft materials for two brief essays by Borges, “El dios y el rey” and “Diálogos del asceta y del rey”, which appeared in La Nación (Buenos Aires) in 1953 and 1954. The notes for these texts are in a Mérito Notebook that was acquired by Special Collections at Michigan State Un...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Country: | México |
| Institution: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repository: | (an)ecdótica |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/162 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/anEcdotica/index.php/anec/article/view/162 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Borges dioses vikingos sagas islandesas marginalia La Nación crítica genética Viking gods Icelandic sagas genetic criticism |
| Summary: | This essay studies the draft materials for two brief essays by Borges, “El dios y el rey” and “Diálogos del asceta y del rey”, which appeared in La Nación (Buenos Aires) in 1953 and 1954. The notes for these texts are in a Mérito Notebook that was acquired by Special Collections at Michigan State University in 2019. The (abundant) marginalia shows the research that Borges did for these two essays published in a newspaper (and collected in 1982 in Páginas de Jorge Luis Borges seleccionadas por el autor) and confirm the close relations between these essays, the book Antiguas literaturas germeanicas that Borges published in 1951 with Delia Ingenieros, and the last short story he wrote before his blindness, “El fin”. |
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