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unidentified object of affection of Borges, later renamed J. M., perhaps Judith Machado

mysterious man to whom Shakespeare's sonnets are dedicated

Silva Valdés poem

13th century Viking king

city in the Netherlands

San Cristóbal de La Habana, Havana, capital of Cuba

German Orientalist, 1775-1839, translator of part of the Arabian Nights for the Breslau edition of 1835-1843

Bustos Domecq, 1932

Parodi :" obra en prosa cuyo título sugiere que posiblemente habría sido motivada por las observaciones de Badoglio sobre el abuso de galicismos por parte de Bustos" (17).

Borges book of poems and short prose, 1960

unpublished long essay by Jorge Guillermo Borges

Quincey, 1937

Bernabé Pérez Ortiz, 1935

German scholar of China, 1864-1935, author of Chinesische Philosophie, Der Buddhismus and other works

fairies

underworld of Greek mythology

Greek god of the underworld

region in Yemen

Fate or Destiny

son of Hildebrand in the Hildebrandslied

German biologist and philosopher, 1834-1919, author of Der Kampf um den Entwicklungsgedanken, Anthropogenie and other works

Haedo is a city located in Partido of Morón, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. It forms part of the urban conurbation of Greater Buenos Aires.

cousin of the narrator in Borges story Funes el memorioso.

Fishburn and Hughes: "Haedo was a family surname of Borges: his mother's cousin was Francisco Haedo. As a child Borges and his family spent summer vacations at the Haedo ranch near Fray Bentos. A few miles north, on the banks of the river Uruguay, there is a small town by the same name." (85)

Borges's cousin, married to the Uruguayan writer Enrique Amorim

Borges's uncle in Uruguay, father of Esther Haedo

uncle of the narrator in Borges story "Funes"

Ibsen play on the theme of the Laxdoela Saga

Khwāja Šamsu d-Dīn Muḥammad Hāfez-e Šhīrāzī, Persian lyric poet, 1325-1389

Tulio Herrera novel, 1965

character in the Nibelungenlied

British writer, 1856-1925

German expressionist poet, perhaps the painter who died in Karlsbad in 1944

Haifeng, city in China east of Hong Kong.

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Chinese town east of Hong Kong." (85)

Japanese genre of short poem

Hyderabad, city in Andhra Pradesh state in India

Fishburn and Hughes : "A state in south central India. Nizam is the title of the reigning prince." (95)

Moore autobiography, consisting of Ave, 1911, Salve, 1912, and Vale, 1913

town in Idaho

country

Al-Moqanna, the Veiled Prophet of Khorasan, d. 779

Haakon IV, "the Old," Norwegian king, 1204-1263

count in the Heimskringla

Sturla Thordarson saga about king Hakon of Norway, who had instigated the murder of Sturla's uncle, Snorri Sturluson

character in the Njals Saga

Icelandic poet, co-author with Rognvald of the Hattalykill

Jehudah Halevi, Jewish rabbi, poet and philosopher, born in Spain, c.1075-1141, sometimes Judah ha-Levi or Judah Halevy

legendary king in the Halfssaga

Milward Kennedy, 1930.

Ellery Queen mystery, 1936

Icelandic saga about the legendary king Half

Halicarnassus, Greek city in Asia Minor

British religious figure, 1839-1934, compiler of Lord Halifax's Complete Ghost Book, 1936

character in the Njals Saga

scholar of Old English poetry and author of A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 1855-1931

pseudonym of Margaret Radclyffe-Hall, 1880-1943, author of the lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness, here mentioned as author of The Sixth Beatitude

Marcial Tamayo Saenz, short story.

ora bard of Iceland

city in southeastern Germany

Union general in the U. S. Civil War, 1815-1872

Vidor film, 1929

probably Karl Ludwig von Haller, Swiss jurist and historian, 1768-1854

English astronomer, 1656-1742

Icelandic skald who died in Scotland

character in the Njals Saga

Argentine classical scholar who studied with Amado Alonso

Italian-born Argentine scholar, 1900-1986

Dutch painter, 1580-1666

tree nymphs of classical mythology

Hamburg, city in northern Germany

French classical author born in Ireland, 1646-1720, author of Memoires du comte de Gramont, Zeneyde, Les Quatres facardins and other works

Coleridge essay in Notes and Lectures upon Shakespeare

Shakespeare tragedy, 1603

prince of Denmark, character in Shakespeare, called Amleth or Amlodi in earlier accounts

Michael Innes, novel, 1937.

Swedish statesman, secretary general of the United Nations, 1905-61

Austrian orientalist, 1774-1856, author of Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches and other works

US detective novelist, 1894-1961, author of Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon and other works

pseudonym of Henri Bourrillon, French writer, 1876-1962

editor of Twenty One-Act Plays, 1935

neighborhood in northern London

one of the sons of Pharez in the Bible

dynasty that ruled China from 206 B.C. to 220 A.D.

Chinese philosoopher, c. 280-233

9th century Chinese writer cited in the Anthologie raisonee de la litterature chinoise

Oliver Onions fantastic novel, 1939

German composer, 1685-1759

Lindsay prose work, 1916

US jazz and blues musician and composer, 1873-1958, editor of Blues: An Anthology and author of Father of the Blues

one of the monsters in Ezekiel's dream

town in Staffordshire, now part of Stoke-on-Trent

Maronite who aided Galland in his translation of the Arabian Nights

La ascensión de Hannele, Hauptmann play with a dream sequence, 1893

town in Missouri on the Mississippi River

Hanno, Carthaginian explorer sent to West Africa before 480 B.C., of whose report a Greek version survives

capital of Vietnam

Hugh Walpole novel, 1929

owner of a restaurant, the "3 de febrero," known in the mythology of the tango as "Lo de Hansen," in the Palermo neighborhood in Buenos Aires, from 1874 to 1892

Parodi :" “la inolvidable pista de Hansen”: conocido por el apellido de su primer propietario, Juan Hansen, “Lo de Hansen” fue un café con pista de baile −para algunos, una mezcla de prostíbulo suntuario con restaurante− que desde 1877 funcionaba en los jardines de Palermo (cf. “Toros” i §2). Considerado una de las cunas del tango, fue demolido en 1912" (28).

Bohemian-Austrian music critic, 1825-1904

biographer of Cézanne, Coleridge and others

monkey god in the Ramayana

Sioux god of thunder

Harold III , Norwegian king, d. 1066 at Stamford Bridge.

Fishburn and Hughes: "The son of a Norwegian chief who fought against the Danes under King Olaf II of Norway. At the King's death, Harald took refuge in Russia and served under the Prince of Kiev; from there he enlisted in the army of the Byzantine Emperor Michael IV. His military exploits form part of Byzantine and Norse medieval history. King of Norway from 1047, Harald expanded Norse rule over Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides, and claimed the throne of England at the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066, allying himself with the rebel Tostig against the new English king, Harold II. He was defeated and killed on 25 September 1066 at Stamford Bridge." (85)

Harold I , first king of Norway, c. 850-c. 933

Viking commemorated on runic inscription found in eastern Canada

Norwegian king and saint, 995-1030

U. S. president, 1865-1923

German scholar of Buddhism, 1852-1904, author of Der Buddhismus nach alteren Pali-Werken, 1890, and numerous other works on Indian religions

US film actor, 1892-1957, worked in team with Stanley Laurel

English novelist and poet, 1840-1928

Wilde poem

actress

Hugh Walpole, 1926

German theologian, 1851-1930, author of Lehrbuche der Dogmengeschichte, Geschichte der altchristlischen Litteratur and other works.

Fishburn and Hughes: "A German religious historian and patrologist, famous for his formulation of Gnosticism as 'the acute Hellenisation of Christianity'. Harnack was opposed to any form of 'Hellenisation' (the interpretation of early Christianity in the light of Greek tradition), holding that Greek sources were an intrusion into Christian theology. As a result he was critical of traditional Christian dogma. See Wilhelm Bousset." (85)

English king, son of Godwin, ear of Wessex, 1022?-1066, defeated by the Normans at the battle of Hastings.

Fishburn and Hughes: "The last Anglo-Saxon king of England, who was defeated and killed by William the Conqueror at the battle of Hastings. Harold assumed the crown on the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066 in the face of two other claimants, Harald Hardrada of Norway whom he defeated at Stamford Bridge and William of Normandy." (85)

Harold Bluetooth, Danish king, d. c.985

Kipling poem

character in Bustos Domecq and Suárez Lynch stories

Parodi : 1) "otro de los miembros de la banda internacional de ladrones, supuesto veterano de la guerra de Cuba. Mencionado también en “Toros” y en Modelo V. El nombre del coronel evoca el del propietario de una muy célebre casa editora de Londres, George G. Harrap (1868−1938)" (55).

2) "“la noche aquella en que Harrap lo guardó en la letrina”: Parodi evoca una escena de “Goliadkin” en que el coronel Harrap impidió que Montenegro visitara en el tren el camarote de la baronne Puffendorf -Duvernois y lo encerró en el baño para caballeros, que don Isidro llama ‘letrina’; cf. “Goliadkin” i §15" (234).

city in Ethiopia

Argentine poet, 1924-1995

US writer, born in Ireland, 1856-1931, author of My Life and Loves, biographies of Shakespeare, Shaw and Wilde, and numerous novels and collections of short stories

British scholar, 1894-1991, author of works on Shakespeare and English poetry

US writer, 1836-1902, author of The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches and many other works

ghost in Lord Halifax's Ghost Book

character in Jorge Max Rohde book, combination of the Baron de Rothschild and Harun-al-Rashid

fifth Abbasid caliph, c. 764-809, sometimes Arrasid, al-Raschid, Emir de los Creyentes, even Aarón el Ortodoxo; also a character in the Arabian Nights

magazine

in Cambridge, Massachusetts

in Icelandic saga, see Havarth

author of the first three editions of the Oxford Companion to English Literature and co-author of the Oxford Companion to French Literature

Carriego poem, published posthumously

German expressionist writer, 1890-1940

ancestors of Borges through Fanny Haslam

pseudonym used by Borges in the Revista Obra, 1935-36

Borges's English grandmother, 1842-1935

author of History of the Land Called Uqbar, 1874, and A General History of Labyrinths.

Fishburn and Hughes: "A fictional name, perhaps a tribute to Fanny Haslam, Borges's paternal English grandmother, who is recalled in 'Story of the Warrior and the Captive'. Borges has, on occasion, published under the name David Haslam. See Borges." (86)

Feuchtwanger novel, 1923, translated as The Ugly Duchess

Hassan ibn Sabbah, founder of the Assassins at the end of the 11th century

Viking warrior in Etruria

town in England, site of battle in 1066 between King Harold and William the Conqueror

British official in India, first governor-general, 1732-1818

Shakespeare's wife, 1557?-1623

Egyptian goddess of love and festivity

Sandburg poem, 1922

collection of skaldic songs

a list of verse forms by Snorri Sturluson, part of the Prose Edda

Hawara, archeological site in Egypt, here mentioned as an ancient labyrinth

La librería encantada, Christopher Morley novel, 1919

Wilkie Collins, 1878.

German playwright, 1862-1946

Hungarian art historian, 1892-1978

"Words of the High One, Odin," part of the Elder Edda

character in Icelandic saga

Icelandic saga about Havarth

town in Massachusetts

British film actress, b. 1916

Parodi :" “como Errol Flynn y Olivia de Havilland en Vamos a Méjico que en inglés se llama Sombrero ”: Errol Flynn (1909−1959) y Olivia de Havilland (1916−?), entre 1935 y 1941 fueron la pareja cinematográfica más célebre de Hollywood; filmaron juntos en siete ocasiones y al menos tres de esos films están ambientados en el Lejano Oeste, como la supuesta película que menciona Mariana. Los títulos que señala Mariana dan pie a una broma sobre las caprichosas titulaciones de películas extranjeras en su traducción al castellano" (81).

island archipelago in the Pacific, former kingdom, now state in the United States

perhaps Sir John Hawkwood, English condottiere, d. 1394 in Florence

ancestors of Nathanie Hawthorne, including Major William Hathorne, early Puritan settler in Salem

US writer, 1804-1864, author of The Scarlet Letter, The Marble Faun, The Blithedale Romance, Wakefield and other works

Carriego poem, published posthumously

US editor and publisher, 1905-1991, editor of Murder for Pleasure

French phycisian (1841-1933).

four angelic beings in Jewish tradition

English essayist, 1778-1830, author of countless essays on drama, poetry and history, as wel as travel books and letters. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "An English critic and essayist. 'Hazlitt's infinite Shakespeare' refers to Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets (1818), where he wrote: 'He was just like any other man, but that he was like all other men.... He was nothing in himself; but he was all that others were or that they could become.' Borges paraphrases these words in 'From Someone to Nobody' (TL 341) and develops Hazlitt's idea in 'Everything and Nothing' (CF 319)." (86)

The Autobiography of R, 1937 book written in collaboration with Henry Wysham Lanier, about the 1889 Mayerling Incident, the murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera

Dickson Carr, novel, 1946.

Chesterton story in The Wisdom of Father Brown

town in Maine

Norah Barnacle, 1884-1951, wife of James Joyce, here called by her mother's surname

English writer on religion and psychology, 1889-1971, author of Pain, Sex and Time

US writer, 1850-1904, author of various books on Japan

US financier and newspaperman, 1863-1951, model for Citizen Kane in Orson Welles movie

Wilkie Collins, 1883.

Conrad short novel, 1902

Graham Greene, novel, 1948.

a misprint for O. Henry

Harte story

Wilder novel, 1935

German tragic dramatist, 1813-1863

minor Greek goddess, daughter of Hera and Zeus

Heine, third book of the Romanzero, 1851

Yehuda Abrabanel, Jewish philosopher poet, c. 1465-1520

Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, in the Bible

Byron, 1815

in Greek mythology, goddess of ghosts and witchcraft

God

By Francisco Ayala

in Bible, Acts of the Apostles

See Faits divers de la terre et du ciel

Trojan hero, son of Priam

Verne novel

Ibsen play, 1891

character in the Prose Edda

German philosopher, 1770- 1831, author of Wissenschaft der Logik, Philosophie der Geschichte and numerous writings on logic, history, politics and aesthetics. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A German philosopher, one of the foremost representatives of nineteenth-century idealism. According to Hegel's definition of reality, individual facts are not rational in themselves but only if viewed as aspects of the whole. The whole is called the 'absolute'; it is spiritual, and can only be reached by a process of logic. Deutsches Requiem: this process, known as 'dialectics', is composed of a triadic movement of thesis, the original statement, antithesis, its counterpart, to which the first gives rise, and synthesis, the unification of the two. This synthesis then becomes the new thesis in the next stage of the movement. The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero: Hegel's dialectical system of knowledge also operates in his vision of history. Deeply religious, Hegel viewed the universe as a manifestation of God, the absolute, who arrives at final self-knowledge through the history of finite beings. The human mind, rising from mere consciousness, passes through various stages, culminating in religion and perfect knowledge. Hegel further expands this principle by observing the various dialectic and cyclical stages of human progress in the realisation of God's purpose." (86)

warriors in the Gudrun

Fishburn and Hughes : "From the Arabic hijrah, emigration: the term for the starting point of the Muslim era, dated at 622 AD, when Mohammed fled from Mecca to Medina. The second caliph, Umari, introduced the Muslim calendar, which began with the first day of the lunar month, 16 July 622. The seventh century after the Hegira would therefore correspond to our fourteenth century." (87)

German philosopher, 1889-1976, author of Sein und Zeit and other works. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A German philosopher who influenced Existentialism. Borges criticises Heidegger's philosophy as one which 'plays at desperation and anguish' but basically aims at enhancing the importance of the 'ego' and flattering its 'vanity' (‘Note on Bernard Shaw’, Other Inq. 166). Elsewhere he belittles Heidegger's achievement: 'He invented one of the German dialects, but nothing else' (Borges mem. 78). CF 391: The sentiments attributed to Heidegger's 'refutation' can be traced to his Rektoratsrede, where he demonstrates his warm reception of National Socialism, emphasising its ideas of strong, even violent, personal leadership. Heidegger speaks of a people knowing itself and discovering its own essence in the state. He places the statesman among his list of genuine creators, demanding of his leadership 'the strength to be able to walk alone'. The suggestion of Hitlerian demagoguery echoes Heidegger's words (Freiburger Studentenzeitung, Nov.3, 1933): 'The Führer himself and he alone is the German reality of today and for the future, and its law.' In later years Heidegger repudiated this position." (87)

university city in Germany

Swedish poet and novelist, 1859-1940, winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 1916

Judaísmo y Cristianismo, Max Brod, 1921

Christ the Redeemer

Sudermann play, 1893

in Scandinavian mythology, watchman of the gods, guardian of Valhalla

1928 film based on Leonhard Frank's Karl und Anna

Snorri Sturluson's history of the Norse kings

See Heine, Heinrich

German lyric poet, 1797-1856, author of the Buch der Lieder, Romanzero and other works

German scholar, 1857-1927, author of Deutsche Dichtung, grundriss der deutscher Literaturgeschichte and other works

US science fiction writer, 1907-1988

Louis Untermeyer biography, 1937

12th century Austrian monk and poet, author of Von des todes gehugde and Das Priesterleben

German physicist, 1901-76, important for his work on quantum mechanics and the "Uncertainty Principle"

Hellanicus of Lesbos, Greek writer, fl. c. 450-406, author of lost works on mythology and history

13th century collection of stories of Germanic heroes

selections from Keller's diaries for 1936-37

religious epic poem written in Old Saxon during the reign of Ludwig the Pious, 814-840

Guillermo Torre book of Ultraist poems, 1923

Utopian socialist community founded by Upton Sinclair in Englewood, New Jersey in 1906

Greek believer in Vishnu

Varius Avitus, called Heliogabalus or Elagabalus, Roman emperor, c.205-222. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A dissolute Roman emperor, originally named Bassianus. He served in the Roman army in Syria, where he was popular with the Roman troops for his exceptional beauty, and was appointed high priest of the sun god of Emesa, Elagabal. Elected emperor in 218 at the age of 15, he took the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and added 'Heliogabalus' in honour of the god whose secret rites he introduced into the capital. His brief reign, marked by debauchery and cruelty, exemplifies a decadent and turbulent imperial court. Jealous of the popularity of his abstemious cousin, Alexander, he attempted to murder him; he was later killed by the Praetorian Guard in a latrine, together with his mother. The anecdote of the emperor writing 'on shells the lots... destined for his guests' is told by Lampridius in the Historia Augusta (2.22.1)." (87)

ancient city in Egypt, now northeastern part of Cairo. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A city in Egypt important for the worship of the sun god Ra. Among its few remains are the obelisks known as Cleopatra's needles." (87)

religious center of the Ituraean tetrarchy, now called Baalbek in Lebanon

character in Bioy Casares novel

old Norse name for Labrador

character in Ibsen's The Doll House

The Loyalty and Bravery of the Swiss: inscription on the Lion Monument in Lucerne, Switzerland

Norse monster

US novelist, 1899-1961, author of The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Snows of Kiliminjaro and numerous other works

Runeberg treatise maintaining that Judas was the Messiah, 1909

town in northern Germany

learned doctor mentioned by Gibbon, d. 1787

author of The Life and Times of John Wilkins, 1910

Jutish leader of 5th century invasion of Britain with his brother Horsa

German Lutheran divine and theologian, 1802-1869, author of Christologie des Alten Testaments and editor of the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A German Protestant theologian and leader of the orthodox Lutherans, a bitter opponent of 'rationalism' as a method of Old Testament criticism. In 1830 he mounted a violent attack on the rationalist Gesenius." (88)

English pastor, translator of Beckford's Vathek from French to English in 1785

English poet, 1849-1903, collaborator with Stevenson on Deacon Brodie and author of Invictus

scholar, 1901-1974, author of The Lonely Tower, a study of Yeats

German theologian, author of Terrae incognitae, 1944-1956

German scholar of the Islamic world, 1861-1927, translator of the Koran and the Arabian Nights

Voltaire epic poem on Henri IV of France, 1723

Dominican diplomat, essayist and historian, 1885-1968, author of Breve historia de modernismo and other works

Dominican critic and teacher, 1884-1946, author of Ensayos críticos, Historia de la cultura en la América Hispánica and other works. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A critic and teacher from the Dominican Republic, once considered the foremost Latin American literary historian. He spent most of his later life in Buenos Aires where he was one of the original contributors to Sur, the literary magazine founded by Victoria Ocampo. Henriquez Ureña was a long-standing friend of Borges and collaborated with him in the publication of Antología clásica de la literatura, argentina (1937)." (88)

West biography, 1916

Shakespeare historical play, c. 1597

Shakespeare play, 1613

character in The Picture of Dorian Gray

riva of Deor in the Deor

US film actress, 1907-2003

Greek god of metalworking

collection of tales by Marguerite de Navarre, 1558

Parodi :" “el Heptamerón de la Reina Margarita”: se trata de una colección de relatos escritos por Marguerite d’Angoulême (1492-1549), más conocida como Marguerite de Navarre, que fue princesa de Orleans y reina consorte de Navarra. A semejanza del Decamerón de Boccaccio (cf. infra ), en el Heptameron (1540-1549), diez viajeros sorprendidos por una tempestad se refugian en una abadía y durante siete días cuentan historias que comentan los oyentes; el resultado son setenta y dos relatos sobre el tema del amor, que describen y satirizan prácticas eróticas sobre todo de la corte renacentista de Navarra" (265).

goddess in Greek mythology

Euripides drama

hero in Greek mythology, see Hercules

Heraclides Ponticus the Younger, Greek grammarian and poet, fl. c. 30-60. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Greek philosopher, born in Heraclea (Pontus), a pupil of Speusippus and Plato. Many books in philosophy, rhetoric, music and mathematics are attributed to him, though nothing survives. Diogenes Laertius states that Heraclides, a trickster by nature, once persuaded the people of Heraclea that, by giving him a golden crown, they would avoid the famine which threatened their city. Before dying he arranged for his corpse to disappear, wishing people to believe that he had ascended bodily to Heaven, but the plan was discovered and his name ridiculed." (88)

Heraclitus of Abdera or Ephesus, Greek philosopher, c. 535-c. 475. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Presocratic philosopher, of whose work only oracular fragments remain. His philosophy, in opposition to that of Parmenides, was based on the principle of permanent movement in nature due to the continuously changing character of its primordial element, fire; the process takes the form of a perpetual conflict of opposites, struggle and unity. This concept found echoes in the dialectics of Hegel. Isolated epigrammatic remarks by Heraclitus on his contemporaries and predecessors survive, mainly pungent and contemptuous." (88)

French orientalist, 1625-1695, author of a Bibliothèque orientale

English poet, 1593-1623, author of The Temple

poem in Rilke's Buch der Bilder

Portuguese novelist and historian, 1810-1877

Heracles or Herakles, hero in Greek mythology

nickname for Olaf Haraldsson

Agatha Chirstie, novel, 1938.

Frank Fraser Darling book, 1937

German philosopher and critic, 1744-1803, author of Uber die neuere deutsche Literatur, Uber den Ursprung der Sprache, Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit and other works

wife of Snorri Sturluson

French Parnassian poet born in Cuba, 1842-1905, author of Les Trophées

city in western England

Chesterton book, 1905

English leader of the resistance to William the Conqueror

Hermann of Reichenau or Herimannus Augiensis, German scholar and chronicler, 1013-1054, author of a Chronicum ad annum 1054

Freeman biography, 1926

Weaver monograph, 1921

Borges and Levinson story

Bratya Karamazovy, Dostoevski novel, 1880

Marx Brothers, US comedic actors

Beccadelli or "Panormita" collection of obscene epigrams

Parodi : "“El hermafrodita de Antonio Panormitano”: Antonio Beccadelli (1394−1471), llamado el Panormitano, fue poeta, jurista, diplomático y humanista siciliano. El hermafrodita (1425), la primera colección de poesía erótica latina publicada durante el Renacimiento, reúne ochenta epigramas; la Iglesia prohibió su lectura por licenciosa. Desde 1443, Beccadelli fue protegido de Alfonso V de Aragón (1396-1458) en el reino de Nápoles" (160).

Swinburne poem

Greek god

Fishburn and Hughes: "In Greek mythology the herald or messenger of the gods, the protector of herdsmen and the god of science, commerce, invention, the arts and, above all, travellers. In this last role Hermes was also the guide of the souls of the dead to their final abode (psychopompos). In art he is usually represented as a vigorous youth with winged helmet and sandals. A guide in both life and death, Hermes is referred to as two-faced." (89).

brand of boots

Parodi :" “traje de montar de Redfern, ponchillo de Patou, botas de Hermés, maquillaje pleinair de Elizabeth Arden”: marcas de ropa y de cosméticos, todas de lujo y alta moda" (72). 

Hermes Trismegistus, Greek translation of name of Egyptian god of wisdom, Thoth, to whom the hermetic books were attributed

Fishburn and Hughes : "A collection of occult writings, known as the Corpus Hermeticum, dating from the first to the third centuries. Their origin was ascribed to the Egyptian god Thoth, who received from the Greeks the name Hermes Trismegistos ('thrice-great Hermes'). They include a text called Asclepius, thought to have been used by St Augustine in the writing of Civitas Dei." (89)

one of Pythagoras's previous incarnations, a soldier in the Trojan War

soldier at Paysandú

Mexican writer, 1904-1958

Argentine politician and gauchesque poet, 1834-86, author of the Martín Fierro as well as Instrucción de estanciero, Vida de Chacho and other prose collected in Prosas de Martín Fierro

Parodi : 1) "político, periodista y poeta argentino, autor de El gaucho Martín Fierro (1872) y su continuación, La vuelta de Martín Fierro (1876)" (29).

2)" “do ya braceara José Hernández”: José Hernández, el autor del poema El gaucho Martín Fierro (cf. “Palabra” §13), fue un decidido partidario de López Jordán. Tras el asesinato de Urquiza, Hernández se unió a la rebelión del caudillo entrerriano; derrotado el movimiento en 1871, Hernández partió al exilio" (418).

public scribe, stock figure

brother and biographer of José Hernández, author of Pehuajó

father of José and Rafael Hernández

gaucho, member of the Unión Cívica Radical who was killed in Paso de los Libres in 1934

Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee mentioned in New Testament, d. c.39 A.D.

king of Judea who ordered the massacre of the innocents, reigned 40-4 B. C.

Greek historian, 484?-425?.

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Greek historian, born in Halicarnassus, known as the 'father of history'. After travelling in Asia Minor, Greece and Egypt, Herodotus settled in the Greek colony of Thurii in Italy. His History, full of charm and subtlety, relates the struggle between Greece and Persia, with numerous digressions. CF 171: Herodotus (2.87) gives details of the Phoenix, having seen it in a painting, and describes the bird's ritual returns to Heliopolis." (89)

name for Juan Manuel de Rosas after the campaign of 1833 against the pampas Indians

bar in Bustos Domecq story

Parodi :" célebre calle de la ciudad de Viena" (146).

Uruguayan politician, 1841-1912, also the name of a street in Montevideo

Uruguayan modernist poet, 1875-1910, author of Los parques abandonados, Los éxtasis de la montaña and other works

Parodi : "poeta modernista uruguayo, 1875-1910, autor de Los parques abandonados (1902-1908), Los éxtasis de la montaña (1904-1907). Herrera es mencionado también en “ Gradus ” §23" (253).

Spanish poet, 1534-1597

character in Bustos Domecq story, author of Hagase hizo, Madrugar temprano and other works

Parodi : "escritor supuestamente nacido en Buenos Aires un 24 de agosto (el mismo día en que, en 1899, nacía Borges). Bustos le atribuye tres obras: una Apología ; el poemario Madrugar temprano y la novela Hágase hizo" (308). 

Argentine literary scholar, author of El poeta de hombre: Almafuerte y su obra, 1918

Spanish poet who lived in Argentina, associated with the Centro Republicano Español

English poet, 1591-1674

family in cycle of Hugh Walpole novels

author of Zen in the Art of Archery, 1953

author of Zen in the Art of Flower Arrangement, 1958

German scholar, author of Nordische Mythologie and Danische Geschichte des Saxo Grammaticus

Fishburn and Hughes : "A Teutonic fertility goddess, formerly known as Nerthus, said by Tacitus to have been worshipped by early German tribes (Germania 40). Hertha corresponds to the Nordic Jord, earth goddesss and mother of Thor. In Germanic sagas Hertha (or Erda) is the oldest and wisest of the gods to whom Wotan appeals for knowledge." (89)

German physicist who was the first to demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic radiation, 1857-1894

strait in the Uruguay River, also nearby tableland south of Salto in Uruguay where Artigas set up his headquarters

Austro-Hungarian journalist, 1860-1904, father of political Zionism

Greek poet, 8th century B.C., author of Works and Days and the Theogony

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Greek epic poet, a near-contemporary of Homer and author of the Theogony and Works and Days. The Theogony details the history of the gods from their emergence from chaos to the moment when Pandora, the first woman, is entrusted by Zeus with ajar containing all the evils 90 which she will let loose on humanity. The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero: in the Works and Days Hesiod combines the moral teachings of the Theogony with rural precepts: continuing the story of Pandora, he traces the decline of mankind from the golden age through the silver and bronze ages down to the present iron age. The later part describes the various tasks which face the farmer and the appropriate times of year in which to perform them, harmonising the rhythm of nature with that of human life." (89)

Swiss poet and novelist, 1877-1962

Heston Aerodrome was a 1930s airfield to the west of London near Cranford

king of the Hegelings in the Gudrun

St. Ambrose work on Cain and Abel

German poet, 1887-1912

German writer, 1891-1985, associated with expressionism in his youth

Persian collection, the "Thousand Stories," probably derived from Sanskrit sources, and itself a source of the Arabian Nights

Longfellow poem, 1855.

Roman name for Ireland.

Fishburn and Hughes: "The Latin name for Ireland." (90)

Peruvian avant-garde poet, 1897-1967

Uruguayan poet, creator of gauchesque poetry, 1788-1822

author of a Vocabulario de germanía, 1609

strange creature of North America

Hydra, water serpent in Greek myth

character in Hermann Broch's Die Unbekannte Grösse

Greek Stoic philosopher, fl. c. 120 A.D., author of Elements of Ethics

Machen, 1902

Fred Zinneman film, 1952, with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly

translator of the Grettir Saga and of a biography of Wagner

Parodi : " “el cobrador de la Higiénica”: empresa que se menciona entre otras “compañías de cloacas y limpieza de letrinas” en Borges 768" (393). 

mountain, geographical landmark of the imaginary Estado Occidental in Conrad's Nostromo. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A peak whose 'white head rises majestically' in the Cordillera of fictional Costaguana described in Conrad's novel Nostromo. See Avellanos, Eastado Occidental, Golfo Plácido, José Korzeniovski." (90)

in the Trinity, Christ the Son

Lugones, part of El Payador

Bustos Domecq story, 1952

phrase used by G. A. Borgese to refer to Nietzsche

Peyrou, novel, 1969.

Jesucristo

monastery near where Caedmon lived

St. Hilda, abbess of Whitby, 614-680

princess of India in the Gudrun

hero of the German poem Hildebrandslied

alliterative Old High German poem, written c. 800, telling of the battle between Hildebrand and his son Hadubrand

Danish princess in the Finnsburh fragment

French princess in the Waltharius

daughter of Hogni, character in the Prose Edda

Romanized version of the name of Adolf Hitler

German Protestant divine and scholar, 1823-1907, author of numerous works on the early Christians

Machen, 1907

California journalist, poet, aviator and author, 1905-1969, translator of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales into modern English in 1935

English novelist, 1900-1954, author of Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr Chips and We Are Not Alone

Kipling poem

mountain range

Lugones poem in Lunario sentimental

Lugones prose piece in Las montañas de oro

Borges's first published poem, 1920

Oíd mortales, Argentine national anthem, lyrics by Vicente López y Planes and music by Blas Parera

Uruguayan national anthem, written by Francisco Acuña de Figueroa

Anglada book of poems, 1934

Parodi :" supuesta obra de Anglada que correspondería a su etapa nietzscheana. Según Formento, para la realización de esta obra, Anglada se habría basado en un artículo de Azorín (cf. “H.B.D.” §3). De los varios miles de artículos escritos por Azorín para diversos periódicos, hacia la fecha de la publicación de Seis problemas , en 1941, en El pueblo gallego de Vigo apareció “Nietzsche en España”, un título que tuvo amplia repercusión, provocó reacciones encontradas y fue reeditado en otros diarios. Azorín afirma allí el valor que el pensamiento nietzscheano seguía teniendo entonces para España: “No creemos que un partido que aspire a levantar a España pueda tener otra filosofía que la de Nietzsche”" (66).

unfinished early Borges work, also called Ritmos rojos

Hudson, 1922

German military officer and president, 1847-1934

journal published in Allahabad, founded in 1903

Fishburn and Hughes : "There is no record of a Hindustan Review in Allahabad, but the Hindustani was published there, in Urdu, from 1931 to 1933." (90)

Detrás del frente, poem by Kurt Heynicke published in Der Sturm in 1919

British philosopher, 1853-1907, author of The Fourth Dimension, A New Era of Thought and other works. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "English born mathematician and writer of science fiction. He was interested in higher dimension, and published (among other) The Fourth Dimension and A New Era of Thought. Borges discusses these works in TR II 95-99, ‘La cuarta dimensión’, originally published under his pseudonym Daniel Haslam." (90)

seahorses

Hippocrates, the Asclepiad of Cos, Greek physician, father of medicine, 469-399

Unamuno poem

Palermo racetrack in Buenos Aires

cross of griffins with horses

ranch owner mentioned in Evaristo Carriego

city of Hippo in north Africa, where St. Augustine came from

German-Jewish baron, financier and philanthropist, 1831-96

Parodi : ""las colonias israelitas del barón Hirsch”: el Barón Moritz von Hirsch auf Gereuth, conocido como Maurice Hirsch (1831-1896) fue un empresario, financista y filántropo judío-alemán que organizó y en parte financió la emigración de judíos de Rusia y otros territorios de Europa oriental hacia varios países, entre ellos, a la Argentina. Los primeros inmigrantes judíos llegaron en 1891 y se instalaron en tierras adquiridas por Hirsch. La presencia de los colonos judíos favoreció el poblamiento y el desarrollo de varias regiones del país, entre otras, de la provincia de Entre Ríos. Fue en esa provincia, en la Colonia Rajil, fundada por Hirsch, donde creció Alberto Gerchunoff, que había nacido en Ucrania en 1883 y que llegó con su familia a la Argentina en 1889. Gerchunoff narró sus experiencias de vida, la cultura y el trabajo en las colonias en una novela que tituló Los gauchos judíos , publicada en 1910, para el Centenario de la Revolución de Mayo" (417).

woman mentioned in Chuang Tzu parable

Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula

Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657

Voltaire, 1731, about Swedish king

Geneviève Bianquis, 1936 and subsequent editions

Historia de la Literatura Francesa desde 1789 hasta nuestros días, Thibaudet, Paulhan and Bopp, 1936

Emile Brehier, several volumes, 1921-1948

Maurice de Wulf, 1900

Abbé Prévost miscellany in many volumes, 1671, with a sequel, Nouvelle histoire générale des Voyages

Paul Valéry, 1950.

Bloy stories, 1894

Collection of short stories by Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, 1888. 

Belleforest compilation of tragic stories from Bandello and other sources, 1559 and later editions

personification of history

Herodotus history

Orosius universal history, c.417

Gesner, 1551-1558

Anglada

Parodi :" obra que finge estar escribiendo Anglada" (87).

Carlos Roxlo work in 7 vols.

Materiales para la historia de la civilización portuguesa, Teófilo Braga, 1909-1918

Fidelino Figuereido, 1914

One of the stories in the One Thousand and One Nights. 

One of the stories in the One Thousand and One Nights. 

Manuel Gálvez novel, 1922

Excerpt from De divinatione by Cicero.

one of Torres Villaroel's Sueños morales

Macaulay, see History of England

story in the One Hundred and One Nights

Conde work in 3 vols., 1820-1821

Borges book of essays, 1936

history of world literature published in Spain

Ricardo Rojas work in 8 vols., 1917-22

Giles, see History of Chinese Literature

Arturo C. Schianca article in Crítica, 1933, also the title of a 1910 book by Juan Alvarez

Historical study written by Héctor G. Ramos Mejía. 2 Volumes.

Borges collection of poems, 1977

Chinese work translated into German by Franz Kuhn

Menéndez y Pelayo, 1911

History book written by Vicente Fidel López. 10 Volumes.

Yarmolinsky study

Fishburn and Hughes : "The plural of 'Hasid': Hebrew for pious, a term used for the followers of a popular religious movement which arose among Polish Jews in the eighteenth century as a reaction to rabbinical and ritual formalism. Under the charismatic leadership of their founder, Baal Shem Tov, the Hasidim, while continuing to adhere to strict observance of the Law, emphasised the joyousness of religion and the ecstasy of prayer, claiming that man's salvation lies in faith rather than religious knowledge. Their pantheistic concept of God was expressed in the belief that material objects are in reality the image of the deity. One of the distinguishing features of Hasidism was the unquestioned authority bestowed upon the Tzaddik, or spiritual leader, regarded as a mediator between man and God and endowed with supernatural powers. This personality cult, which led to much abuse and superstition, contributed to the animosity felt by orthodox Jews towards Hasidism and the persecution and even excommunication of their leaders by some rabbis, who considered them a godless sect. The idea that this animosity could lead to murder has no historical basis; yet it is not too fanciful for Scharlach to have built his masterplan on the premise that his enemy, the detective Lönnrot, might think it possible." (85)

Gregorovius, perhaps a reference to his Geschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter, 13 vols., 1859-1872

Menéndez y Pelayo, 8 vols., 1882-1891

Olaus Magnus work, 1555

Excerpt from Geschichte des Abbasidenchalifats in Aegypten by Gustav Weil.

Jourdanes, see De rebus Geticis

Menéndez y Pelayo, 1880-82

Baladhuri's Futuh ul-Buldan, a history of the early expansion of Islam under the Caliphate

Francisco Manuel de Mello history, 1645, published under the pseudonym of Clemente Libertino

Excerpt from Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Río de la Plata (1612), written by Ruy Díaz de Guzmán.

Lugones poem in El libro fiel

Gauchesque literary work edited and transcribed by Ventura R. Lynch

Alexandre Herculano, 1846-1853

Short story by Borges

Mitre, 1887-90

Luís de Sousa life of Saint Dominic

Lugones essay, 1911

Eduardo Mallea essay, 1937

In the Antología de la literatura fantástica, story attributed to Niu Chiao.

Gálvez novel, 1922

Only book written by Ruy Díaz de Guzmán in 1612.

Borges story, 1949

José Guevara, published posthumously in the 1830s

History of Shorthorn Cattle in Argentina, Stanwick, 1910. 

Book written by Héctor and Luis Bates in 1936.

Bede's history of the English people from the Roman invasion to 731

Fishburn and Hughes : "A rambling scientific treatise by Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79) which deals with geography, anthropology, physiology, botany, agriculture, medicine and the arts. Compiled from vast reading, and citing about 500 authors, of whom about 150 were Roman, it is a major source of our knowledge of ancient life. Funes, his Memory, CF 133: the 'odd volume' in the story of Funes probably refers to book 2 where in chapters 3-7 Pliny writes about memory, calling it 'the boon most necessary for life'..

Gervasio Montenegro

Parodi : "obra de Gervasio Montenegro" (323).

Heinrich Ritter and Ludwig Preller, 1838

Collection of short stories by Adolfo Bioy Casares, 1956.

Geoffrey of Monmouth history of Britain, c.1150

Boethius

Cantu, see Storia universale

Borges, 1935

Lucian satirical work, Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, the so-called True History

Cortázar, 1962.

Name given in the Antología de la literatura fantástica to a fragment of Star Maker (1937) by Olaf Stapledon.

Whately, 1819

Heine, 1851

Emerson essay, 1841

Milton, 1670

Giles, 1901

Belloc, 1915

Macaulay, 1849-1861

Lang, 1912

Legouis and Cazamian, 1924

Saintsbury, see Short History of English Literature

Carlyle, 1851.

Richard Garnett, 1898

Kato work in two volumes, one on the first thousand years, 1979, and the second on the modern period, 1991

H. G. Wells comic novel, 1910

Irving burlesque history, 1809

Percy Sykes, 1915

Philip Gosse, 1932

Conan Doyle, 1926.

Carlyle, 1875

Haslam, 1874

Cooper, 1839

Liddell Hart, 1934

Russell, 1945

Anglo-American film director, 1899-1980, director of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Spellbound and dozens of other films

Nazi dictator, born in Austria, 1889-1945, author of Mein Kampf. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "The leader of the National Socialist Party in Germany, who was elected Chancellor in 1933. In defiance of treaty obligations he rearmed and led Germany into a disastrous war which changed the face of Europe. Preaching the supremacy of the Aryan race, his policy was a 'final solution': the complete extermination of the Jews. Six million died in German concentration camps. In 'A Comment 92 on August 23, 1944', Borges speculates on the hypothesis that Hitler actually wished to be destroyed and collaborated in his own annihilation (TL 210). " (91)

group of warriors in the Prose Edda

Danish king in the Volsunga Saga

character in Borges story, author of the verse drama Los enemigos, perhaps kin to the Czech novelist and dramatist Vaclav Hladik, whose work Evzen Voldan the Encyclopaedia Britannica judges "a very striking representation of the life of modern Prague". 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A fictional character, the protagonist of 'The Secret Miracle', whose writings are referred to in 'Three Versions of Judas'. See Vindicación de la eternidad." (92)

character in the Prose Edda, also called Aegir

English statesman, 1880-1959

English philosopher, 1588-1679, author of Leviathan

god of the bushmen

Fishburn and Hughes : "The German word for a university or its equivalent." (92)

Kafka story about preparations for a country wedding, written in 1907-08

Swiss painter, 1853-1918

US theatrical press agent, ?-1987, author of The Murder of The Man Who Was Shakespeare, 1955

German romantic novelist and composer, 1776-1822

Esperanza de la juventud, poem by Kurt Heynicke published in Der Sturm in 1919, Borges translation called simply Esperanza

confused reference to Calvin Hoffmann

Austrian dramatist and poet, 1874-1929, author of Brief des Lord Chandos and numerous other works, and editor of Die osterreichische Bibliothek

"Head-Ransom," Egil's praise of his enemy Eirik Bloodaxe, included in the Egils Saga

Hilaire Belloc's wife, 1868-1914

Section of Sarmiento autobiography

Parodi :" “un diario del Hogar Policial”: referencia a la revista Hogar policial , una de las varias publicaciones periódicas de los diversos distritos de policía locales. El Hogar policial era una entidad de beneficencia dentro del cuerpo de policía, mantenida mediante colectas y donaciones de los ciudadanos" (213). 

Buenos Aires reformatory

family magazine for which Borges wrote a book column from 1936 to 1939, and contributed to after that; his articles are collected in Textos Cautivos and Borges en El Hogar

English painter and engraver, 1697-1764

literary critic, author of Dangerous Thoughts, 1939

Author of Yerba vieja (1945)

town in Austria on the Swiss border

newspaper

Parodi : "supuesto periódico de alguna de las al menos dos poblaciones de la comunidad autónoma de Aragón que llevan el nombre de Alberuela. La de mayor importancia es Alberuela de Tubo, un municipio de la provincia de Huesca; la otra se denomina Alberuela de la Liena" (439).

Alexander translation of Whitman, 1956

Borges translation of Whitman, 1969

periodical edited by Jacques Reboul, in which Menard published an attack on Valéry

Japanese artist, 1760-1849

Ronald Peacock book, 1938

German lyric poet, 1770-1843, author of Hyperion and other poems

English chronicler, d. c. 1580, author of The Historie of England and editor of the Chronicle

British physician, writer and trans- lator, 1552-1637.

Fishburn and Hughes: "An English translator of the classics known as the 'Translator-General'. His rendering of Pliny's Historia Naturalis, the first in English, is noted for its exuberance and poetic resonance and is believed to have been used by Shakespeare." (92)

English writer who published his third novel in 1936 at the age of eleven

Ramalho Ortigão travel book, 1883

US scholar of Old Icelandic literature, 1880-1972

Dickson Carr, novel, 1935.

Eliot poem, 1925

part of Los Angeles where film industry is centered

Liam O'Flaherty, 1935

Joseph Kessel, 1936

Knud Valdemar Gylding Holmboe, Danish explorer who converted to Islam, 1902-1931, author of Desert Encounter

US author and physician, 1809-94, author of The Autocrat at the Breakfast-Table, The Chambered Nautilus and other works

character in detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

old Norse name for Novgorod

Herrera y Reissig poem in Los parques abandonados, 1909

Babylonian general killed by Judith in the Book of Judith

region of northern Germany

H. G. Wells novel, 1939

here, the infinite Libro de Arena

German naturalist poet and playwright, 1863-1929

Pound poem, 1919

Bustos Domecq film

Borges story, published as "Hombre de las orillas" in 1933

Film by René Mugica, 1962, based on the Borges's story.

tale from Enrique González Tuñón´s El alma de las cosas inanimadas

tale from Enrique González Tuñón's El alma de las cosas inanimadas

Borges story, 1952

Alfredo Mario Ferreiro book, 1927

collaborative project, never finished, by Macedonio Fernandez, Borges and others

film

Mujica Lainez story

blue men, Viking name for the Saracens

mermen of China

early Borges story published in El idioma de los argentinos, later revised as "Hombre de la esquina rosada"

Silva Valdés poem

Pérez Zelaschi, short stories, 1941.

scorpion-men in Gilgamesh

Elmer Rice play, 1918

popular education project directed by Henry Smith Williams

Browning poem in Dramatic Lyrics, 1842

Edna Ferber story

catalogue of a Xul Solar exhibit in 1963 with a Borges preface, subsequently reprinted in several other catalolgues

Greek poet to whom the Iliad and Odyssey are traditionally ascribed

Fishburn and Hughes : "Homer (Homero) The first and greatest Greek poet, of Ionian origin, who seems to have lived between the ninth and eighth centuries BC: the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey , both of which were transmitted orally (how far our present texts were remodelled by others remains a matter of dispute). According to legend Homer was blind. Nothing is known about him, but the homogeneity of the language and inspiration of the two poems, together with the consistency of their characters, points to a single originator. Borges studied at length the many translations of Homer's poems and discussed their different merits, displaying a partiality for the versions of Pope. He was particularly interested in the range of interpretations that emerge in the translations, and the impossibility of distinguishing, within the text, between what is intrinsically Homer's and what is part of the heritage of language; he concluded that the original meaning of a text could never be recaptured (Homeric Versions, Tl 69). Borges also felt a certain affinity with Homer, no doubt heightened by his blindness; he suggested that Homer, on losing his sight, realised that poetry was his destiny: compelled to look for experience within himself, he gained in inspiration (’The Maker). The Immortal, CF 186: 'those from Zelea, wealthy Trojans...': these 'words of Greek' which the narrator of 'The Immortal' repeats in his delirium, are a quotation from the passage in the Catalogue of ships in the Iliad listing the Trojan allies (2.824-7). The men from Zelea were led by Pandarus to whom Apollo had taught his skill with the bow. Cf 188: an ‘incomprehensible reproof that verged upon remorse’: these words too 'belong to Homer' in so far as they refer to the insinuation of Helen's guilt when, after the abortive duel between Paris and Menelaus, she reprimands Paris for not having fallen on the battlefield Wad 3.385ff.). CF 191: The poem about a war of 'frogs and mice' refers to the mock epic Batrachomyomachia intended as a satire on the Iliad and traditionally attributed to Homer. See Giambattista Vico, Smyrna." (92)

Jules Romains, 1937

Hombre de carne y del hombre reflejo, Max Jacob, 1924

Jacques Spitz science fiction novel, 1938

Lenormand play, 1924

Duvernois novel, 1936

Ramon Fernandez essay, 1936

Hombres de buena voluntad, Jules Romains cycle of 28 novels, 1932-1946

Murena’s book of essays, 1961.

Central American country

street in Buenos Aires

Chinese cosmology revealed to the emperor Yu

city in southern China, former British possession

Henri Massis nationalist tract, 1937

Parodi :" “centro espiritista Honor y Patria”: si bien es improbable que haya existido un centro espiritista de ese nombre, sí en cambio había un “Club Sirio Libanés Honor y Patria”, fundado en 1932 por Moisés José Azize, también director del Diario Siriolibanés , de edición bilingüe. En los lujosos salones del club se realizaron centenares de actos en los que fueron recibidas y agasajadas personalidades políticas, eclesiásticas, diplomáticas, científicas, literarias y artísticas. Para espiritismo, cf. “Doce” i § 5" (41). 

Chesterton´s short story published in The Innocence of Father Brown , 1911.

character in Priestley novel based on Gary Coooper

Poe story

character in James's Abasement of the Northmores

character in James's Abasement of the Northmores

Tichborne family lawyer

English poet, 1844-89

Parodi : "“la laureada frente de Hopkins”: tal vez se trate de una alusión al sacerdote jesuita, pintor, músico y poeta inglés Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), cuya poesía, que tendió a la fusión de lo narrativo, lo descriptivo y lo dramático, es admirada por Borges (cf. Introducción a la literatura inglesa, OCC II: 368). Fue el Poeta Laureado Robert Bridges quien compiló, anotó y editó póstumamente la obra de Hopkins ( Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins , 1918)" (271).

US film actress, 1902-1972

character in Sadleir's Fanny by Gaslight

Menén Desleal story

Quevedo satirical work, 1645

Fishburn and Hughes : "A satirical and philosophical work by Quevedo, whose attack on the government of Philip IV led to his banishment. The work is a 'moral fantasy' in which people from different nations and professions face a tribunal of Gods. The passage likened to Don Quixote's well-known debate 'against letters and in favour of arms' is the passage describing the Greeks as 'rich in books and poor in triumphs'. Quevedo regrets the lack of bullets, complaining that all the lead has been used to make letter-moulds for printing more books. ‘Yet,' he argues, 'it was our battles that gave us our empire and our victories.' The most pungent line, and the one which most concisely expresses the spirit of the debate, is 'Nunca se juntó el cuchillo a la pluma que éste no la cortase' ('Never did the sword join the pen without the one cutting the other'), which denies the compatibility of the world of letters with the world of arms (cf. ed. Zaragoza, 1651,125-8)." (93)

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Latin poet, 65-8 BC, author of satires, odes and epodes, epistles and an Ars Poetica

Lugones, section of El libro de los paisajes

Lugones book of poems, 1922

mountain in Bible

Huidobro collection of poems in French, 1917

Collection of nouvelles by Guy de Maupassant (1887).

semi-mythical gaucho, based on Guillermo Hoyo, subject of a novel by Eduardo Gutierrez

street name in Bustos Domecq story

Parodi : "“la Avenida Hormiga Negra”: el nombre de la avenida alude a un personaje histórico, el gaucho y cuchillero Guillermo Hoyo, un célebre héroe marginal, delincuente y perseguido por la justicia, cuya vida fue narrada por Eduardo Gutiérrez (1851-1889) en el popular folletín Hormiga Negra , publicado en 1881" (435).

Eduardo Gutiérrez novel, 1881

Ivory trader in Africa, 1861-1931, who wrote a book about the trade

According to the brief biographical note in the Antología de la literatura fantástica , English mathematician born in Brighton in 1901.

German Orientalist and philologist, author of Grundriss der iranischen Philologie, 1895, and other works

place mentioned in the Grettirs Saga

Jutish warrior, brother of Hengist; together they led conquest of England by Jutes in 5th century

Cunninghame Graham, 1930

German writer, 1769-1832, author of the Zauber-Bibliothek

hospital in Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires

Banchs sonnet

Parodi : " Chateau de l’Hospitalet, un vino reserva tinto elaborado en esa región del sur de Francia" (206). 

poem by Ricardo Molinari

Parodi :" “las cantinas La Hostia al Paso”: comenta Miguel de Torre: “El agnosticismo de Honorio Bustos Domecq y de B. Suárez Lynch, agregado a la saturación que en 1934 les produjo el XXXII Congreso Eucarístico Internacional, con sede en Buenos Aires, los llevó a escribir sobre el Nuncio y el Tigre de la Curia; el poderoso estilo litúrgico de Monseñor De Gubernatis, el tango - milonga El Papa es fija [sic]; las cantinas La Hostia al Paso; el padre Abramowicz, confesor de Fulanita y otras risueñas irreverencias” (231). Sobre el Congreso Eucarístico, cf. “H.B.D.” § 3; el Nuncio, cf. “Amistad” § 6; el “Lungo Cachaza, el Tigre de la Curia”, cf. “Testigo” § 1; De Gubernatis, cf. supra “ A manera de Prólogo” § 6; el tango - milonga El Papa es una fija , cf. supra § 1; el padre Abramowicz confesor de la Princesa Fiodorovna, propietaria de un prostíbulo, cf. “Goliadkin” i § 20" (235). 

architect, character in Bustos Domecq story

Parodi : "“Hotchkis de Estephano”: supuesto arquitecto que adhería a la construcción de ‘inhabitables’" (297).

Fishburn and Hughes : "According to Borges's Commentaries (Aleph 173 (268)), the Hotel du Nord stands for the Plaza Hotel in Buenos Aires, at the time one of the city's most elegant hotels." (93)

Parodi :" el “Gran Hotel España”, obra del arquitecto español José Arnavat, fue el primer establecimiento construido sobre la Avenida de Mayo, en 1897. En el edificio, uno de los más lujosos de la ciudad, se hospedaron, entre otros, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, José Ortega y Gasset, Ramón del Valle Inclán, y durante el franquismo fue un refugio para muchos exiliados. Actualmente funciona allí el Sindicato de Trabajadores Gastronómicos" (312-13). 

large hotel in the center of Mar del Plata

French conjurer and magician, 1805-1871

magazine published in Portland, Maine, from 1927 to 1934

Francis Thompson poem, 1893

Conan Doyle mystery novel about Sherlock Holmes, 1902

French lithographer, friend of Pierre Menard

Langston Hughes poem, 1926

lower house of British Parliament

La casa de los mayores, Stevenson fable

Rossetti sonnet sequence, 1881

Jack London story about the South Seas

Werker film, 1934

Machen, 1906

Kipling story