Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to His Mind and Art, A Revised Edition

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Index Boldface page numbers indicate stories discussed in detail. Action Française, 129, 194 Adventure story, 53–54, 143, 156, 265. See also Thrillers Aguilar Mora, Jorge, 123 Aleph, El, 42, 54, 70, 80, 142–143, 163, 196, 209, 260, 266, 273, 295 ‘‘Aleph, The,’’ 39, 43, 65, 83, 100, 117, 181, 209, 220, 226–236, 243, 247, 248, 266, 268, 305–306n30 Alephs (mathematics), 234 Alexander the Great, 153, 175 Allen, Woody, 132–133 Alvarado, Pedro de, 212, 213 Anales de Buenos Aires, 151 Anderson, George, 239 Anti-Communism, 41, 80, 81, 285, 286, 292 Anti-Semitism, 22, 31, 89, 271, 291–292, 293 Apollodorus, 148 ‘‘Approach to Al’Mu-tasim, The,’’ 58, 73–76, 78, 122 Aquinas, Thomas, 203 Arabian Nights, 15, 57, 67 Argentina, 7, 8, 9, 12, 19, 187, 269–272, 288, 299nn6,7 ‘‘Argentine Writer and Tradition, The,’’ 7, 289 Aristotle, 153, 172, 176, 177, 178, 231 Arnold, Matthew, 48 Ası́n Palacios, Miguel, 179 Astete Millan, Elsa (Borges’s first wife, 1967–1970), 26–27 Augustine, Saint, 167–168 Avant-garde, 17–18, 122–123, 256 ‘‘Avelino Arredondo,’’ 262 ‘‘Averroes’s Search,’’ 143, 172–180, 181, 196, 266 ‘‘Babel Library, The.’’ See ‘‘Library of Babel, The’’ ‘‘Babylon Lottery, The.’’ See ‘‘Lottery in Babylon, The’’ Balzac, Honoré de, 33, 46, 52 Barnstone, Willis, 210 Barrenechea, Ana Maria, 39 Barth, John, 3, 132, 278 Barthelme, Donald, 278, 280 Baudelaire, Charles, 285 Beckett, Samuel, 4, 29, 32, 40, 49, 50, 51, 182, 281 Bell, Daniel, 3 Bellow, Saul, 285 Bénichou, Paul, 5 Beowulf, 150, 279–280 Bergson, Henri, 105 Berkeley, Bishop George, 32, 37–38, 40, 136, 140, 141 Bertolucci, Bernardo, 3, 83 Bhagavad-Gita, 213, 215–216 Bible, The, 118, 150, 162 Bierce, Ambrose, 91 Bioy Casares, Adolfo, 53–54, 73, 134, 139, 255 Book of Imaginary Beings, The, 247, 254, 257, 258, 265 Book of Sand, The, 28, 114, 247, 260–264, 265 Borges, Frances Haslam de (grandmother), 12–13, 39, 158–160, 163 Borges, Colonel Francisco (grandfather), 12, 13, 86, 155, 161 Borges, Jorge Guillermo (father), 13, 14–16, 23, 26, 78, 268 Borges, Jorge Luis: Argentine roots of, xiv, 11–12, 288–292; poetry of, xiv, 20, 247– 248, 267, 276; political views of, xiv, 19– 21, 22, 40–41, 81, 118, 140–141, 197–198, 273, 275, 276–277, 291–292, 294; skepticism of, xiv, 39–41; international recognition , 3–7, 24–25; and Peronism, 5, 23–24, 248, 249, 273, 274; status in Argentina, 5–7, 24; cosmopolitanism of, 7–11; influence in Latin America, 7, 10–11, 42–45, 46–48, 284–285; English background, 12–13; military origins, 12–13; infancy and youth, 14–16; European residence, 16–17; ultraı́sta phase, 17–18; essays of, 20–21, 58–59, 163, 276; nationalist phase, 20–21; shift to Europhilia , 22, 293–294; takes up fiction, 22–23, 77–79, 294–295; blindness of, 23, 247; difficult years, 23–24, 77–79, 267, 268–269, 272–273; literary talent and temperament of, 23, 29–31, 274–275; love life and marriages of, 25–29; linguistic ability of, 29; erudition and preferences of, 30–36; idealism of, 40, 136; prose style of, 43–46, 258, 284–285; humor of, 47–48; and fantasy, 48–52, 54–57; sex in Borges’s fiction, 48, 110– 111, 114–115, 262; and thrillers, 53–54; formal innovations of, 57–58, 74–75, 162–163, 266–267; themes of, 59, 117– 118, 260–261; first stories of, 63–76, 295; mature works, 77–243; autobiographical element in Borges’s fiction, 84, 86, 92, 124, 201, 209–211, 253, 266–267; mystical experiences of, 209–211; later artistic shifts of, 247–267; influence of in United States, 278–281 Borges, Leonor Azevedo de (mother), 24, 195, 248, 272 Borges, Norah (sister), 14, 15, 18, 272 ‘‘Borges and I,’’ 252–253, 262 Brahms, Johannes, 201, 221 Brazil, 187–188 ‘‘Bribe, The,’’ 261, 265 Buber, Martin, 16, 111, 113 Buenos Aires, 7, 8, 12, 21, 100, 138, 177, 182, 183, 191, 223, 232, 264, 288–289, 291 Bukharin, Nikolai, 167 320 borges and his fiction Bullfighting, 7 Buñuel, Luis, 128, 171 Burgess, Anthony, 284 Burgin, Richard, 31 Burton, Richard, 232, 233, 235 Cabbalah, 39, 97, 168, 233–234 Cabrera Infante, Guillermo, 10, 42, 48, 278 Cage, John, 257 Caillois, Roger, 5 Camus, Albert, 285 Cansinos-Assens, Rafael, 17, 31 Canto, Estela, 25–26, 302n6, 305n29, 306n31 Cantor, Georg, 234 Capote, Truman, 163...