2023-06-06 00:57:00
“At that time, I was looking for sunsets, the suburbs and misfortune; now, the mornings, the center and the serenity”reflected the master of labyrinths and mirrors in 1969, in the reissue of Buenos Aires Fervor. 100 years following the publication of the first book of poetry by Jorge Luis Borgeshis hometown celebrates him in the Festival Borgesa week of free literary activitieswhich analyzes different facets of the most complex and celebrated author in Argentina.
From talks regarding his relationship with cinema, tango, the media and authorship, to analysis of his works El Aleph, the circular ruins and of course, Fervor in Buenos Airescan be experienced face-to-face and virtually, with prior registration.
This Monday was the first day from the celebration to the author, with virtual talks by the Spanish writer eloy tizon, who spoke regarding the biographical circumstances and characteristics of Borges’s work that turned him into a myth; the argentinian writer Claudia Piñeiro, who was interviewed regarding her experience as a reader and host of the program “Conversations in the labyrinth”; and the teacher and researcher Gonzalo Aguilar, who analyzed Borges as a spectator, screenwriter and film critic.
Why the legacy of Jorge Luis Borges is incalculable
Las face-to-face talks will be held this Wednesday and Fridayin the library of the reading house(Lavalleja 924, CABA) and will have as exhibitors the journalist Walter Romero, which will deal with tango according to Borges, in a tour that focuses on the “malevaje question” and “the sect of the knife and courage”; and the Spanish novelist and translator andres beardwho will talk regarding Borges, his “elegant way of plagiarizing” and the current difficulties in understanding his link with texts.
In addition, the upcoming virtual talks will be in charge of the Welsh academic Richard Gwyn, regarding the parallel worlds of Borges; the North American researcher, specialist in the Borges manuscripts, Daniel Balderston; the researcher Sylvia Saítta; the author Deborah Mundani; and the journalist and writer Hinde Pomeraniec. Also, the teacher Annick Louis; the teacher and researcher julio schvartzman; the author clear bound and the writer Carlos Battilana.
The Borges Festival is organized by the editor and cultural manager Marisol Alonso and the author Vivian Dragna. In 2021, he was declared of cultural interest by the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires. This year, in addition, it has the support of the Ministry of Culture of the City.
How to participate in the Borges Festival?
All face-to-face and virtual activities are free, although they do It is necessary to register prior to each activity specific. On the festival website, you must click on the profile of the speaker you wish to attend and complete the contact information (names, date of birth, country of origin and email).
The link is the following:
The schedule for this week at the Borges Festival
Tuesday June 6
- Borges, national writer?, by Annick Louis. At 16, virtual mode.
Considered today the greatest Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges was discussed during his life, and often accused of being “not very national” due to the themes addressed and the aesthetics addressed in his literature. This talk will return to the characteristics of his work and his attitudes, those that provoked rejection by critics and the public.
- Borges and the media, by Sylvia Saítta. At 18, virtual mode.
An analysis of some strategies through which Borges made the media the first area of circulation of his literature; in which he also found one of the main stages of constitution of his public figure as a writer and reader. Saítta will review that Borges who published in mass newspapers and periodicals; he was interviewed by the written press, and on radio and television programs; he directed cultural magazines and supplements; he participated as a jury in contests promoted by newspapers, publishers and trade magazines; he posed for photographers, signed autographs, participated in book fairs and public events.
- Borges Experience, by Hinde Pomeraniec. At 20, virtual mode.
The journalist and writer Hinde Pomeraniec will recall her construction as a reader. When and how did Borges get to know for the first time? How was his experience as a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, and also what is Borges’ place in current literature.
Wednesday June 7
- The Aleph: All the ants in the world, by Julio Schvartzman. At 16, virtual mode.
The Aleph is an exceptional optical device; its user, a character named Borges; its object, the inconceivable universe. That is, what is not possible to conceive might, in any case, be seen, by action of instruments and exceptional circumstances. The test of the narrator’s skill is the moment in which he must enumerate what he, inconceivably, he has seen. Thus, on the one hand, the aleph (letter, alphabet, writing) can be thought of as an emblem of literature. On the other, reversing the direction of the lens, the vision accounts for his agent, a certain Borges: his weaknesses, his frustrations, and his alibis.
- Reflections on Borges, recursion and the parallel worlds hypothesis, by Richard Gwyn. At 18, virtual mode.
The Welsh academic will use two of the author’s short stories to explore the idea of the double, recursion and infinity, returning to the Greek island where, at the age of eighteen, he came across these texts. Thus, he will delve into the idea of a Borges who as a child discovered the notion of eternity in the lid of a cookie tin, and has pursued it ever since, through his writings on labyrinths, libraries, and the Aleph.
- Tango according to Borges, Walter Romero. At 8:00 p.m., face-to-face mode at the Reading House, Lavalleja 924 (CABA).
Walter Romero, teacher and interpreter, revisits the tango according to Borges in a journey that focuses on the “malevaje question” and “the sect of the knife and courage”, in fictions, essays, conferences, poems and milongas of the great writer. Borges, witness of the first decades of the genre, will make his conjectural contributions regarding the origin of our city music, the character of its first verses, the preponderant place of the milonga and the advent of the tango song, together with the sentimental imprint of Carlos Gardel, flagship singer.
Thursday June 8
- Borges at the time of writing, by Clara Obligado. At 16, virtual mode.
The author will carry out an analysis, through the classic story by Borges “Emma Zunz”, of the resources that can serve as writing and reading tools.
- Fervor of Buenos Aires: speculations on its present, by Carlos Battilana. At 6 pm, virtual mode.
The reading of Fervor de Buenos Aires leads us to reflect on its projections in the space of the margin, that indecisive zone between the countryside and the city that the author himself identified as the “shores”. The book makes it possible to address certain aspects of contact and difference with other Argentine poets who traced the urban space, such as Evaristo Carriego and Baldomero Fernández Moreno. The talk will try to think, from the work of rewriting by Borges in the successive editions of the book, the way in which he tried to combat verbal emphasis and the way in which he estimated rhetorical simplicity as an aesthetic value.
- The enigma of Borges’s lectures on Edward FitzGerald and Omar Khayyam: half a page of notes, by Daniel Balderston. At 20, virtual mode.
Borges made half a page of notes for a lecture on the translator Edward FitzGerald. The brief notes allow us to reconstruct the research he did and the background of his well-known essay “The Edward FitzGerald Enigma”, while adding information regarding his interest in the subject of whether poetic translation is possible.
Friday June 9
- The architecture of the dream. A possible entry to The circular ruins, by Débora Mundani. At 16, virtual mode.
The author will analyze the story and its interstices through which one of the central concerns of Borges’s work slips: the representation of “the real”.
- Borges, plagiarist, by Andrés Barba. At 18, face-to-face mode.
Borges was a revolutionary author in many ways, but above all in the anti-romantic revision of his own condition as an author and of the concept of authorship. His way of writing often involved rewriting, paraphrasing, mere commentary or even summarizing, constantly appropriating other people’s ideas and reworking them as his own.
Andrés Barba will also deal with how Borges’ eminently ironic narrative has collapsed in today’s world with a very erroneous literal and sacred reading of his texts, which has led to constant nonsense, such as the cancellation and withdrawal from the market of texts they made, with the work of Borges, exactly the same as Borges did with other authors.
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