by Jorge Luis Borges · Seuil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020380881
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«Evaristo Carriego» is Jorge Luis Borges's biographical essay, published by Seuil in paperback (150 pages, in French).
Borges portrays his friend the poet Evaristo Carriego, from the Palermo neighborhood in Buenos Aires, and with him reconstructs the world of tango, milongas, knife-fighters and brothels of the early twentieth century. The portrait blends biography, history and fiction until it turns the poet into a Borgesian creature.
Work originally published in 1930; this French edition is translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Françoise Rosset.
Aimed at readers of Borges with a command of French who wish to approach his essayistic side and the literary recreation of Palermo.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magical realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
