A Guide to Bolatin de una noche, 1924-1926, Bolatin de una noche 10155-n

A Guide to Bolatin de una noche, 1924-1926,

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Accession Number 10155-n

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

10155-n

Title

Bolatín de Una Noche, 1924-1926

Physical Characteristics

This collection contains a two-page manuscript.

Creator

Jorge Luis Borges

Language

Spanish

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Bolatín de Una Noche, Accession #10155-n, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This manuscript was purchased by the Library from Serendipity Books on June 16, 1989.

Scope and Content Information

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 Argentinos but 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].