Finder's Guide

Zen Buddhist monk in fable

collection of Welsh tales, compiled in the 14th and 15th centuries

pseud. of Pierre Dumarchey, French writer, 1882-1970, author of Masques sur mesure

Portuguese colony in China

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Portuguese colony on the South China Sea, the earliest European port in the Far East, dating from the sixteenth century. It was later identified with smuggling and gambling." (122)

Mexican bandit in popular verses

English essayist and historian, 1800-59, author of Lays of Ancient Rome, a History of England and numerous Essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay's father, 1760-1838, a philanthropist and abolitionist

Scottish king, d. 1057, subject of Shakespeare play

Shakespeare tragedy, c. 1606

Fishburn and Hughes: "In the context of the assassination of Fergus Kilpatrick, the allusion to Macbeth, as well as to Julius Caesar, emphasises the literary quality of the 'scheme conceived' by the character Nolan and its predetermined nature. Warnings of death dominate the plots of both plays, unheeded by Caesar and misunderstood by Macbeth. See Julius Caesar." (122)

Thane of Fife, character in Shakespeare's Macbeth, drawn from Holinshed's Chronicle

region in northern Greece and southern former Yugoslavia

Fishburn and Hughes: "An ancient nation in the Balkan peninsula on the Aegean corresponding nowadays to parts of Bulgaria, Greece and Yugoslavia." (122)

Macedonius, bishop of Constantinople from 342 to 360, heterodox theologian associated with the Homoiousians and Pneumatomachi

Fernández Latour book, 1980

Austrian physicist and philosopher, 1838-1916

Spanish poet, 1875-1939, author of Campos de Castilla, Juan de Mairena and other works

Spanish poet and playwright, 1874-1947, author of Caprichos, Cante hondo and other works

Argentine colonel, 1823-1909, important in the Argentine army's campaigns against the Indians in the province of Buenos Aires

Fishburn and Hughes: "An Argentine military commander who in 1863 directed a campaign against the Indians in the southern pampas. The suggestion that Martín Fierro was conscripted to his forces is not mentioned in the poem." (122)

woman for whom Borges wrote one or perhaps two love poems

British author, 1863-1947, author of The London Adventure

Máquina de leer los pensamientos, Maurois, 1937

bazaar in Calcutta

Uruguayan woman, first person to be buried in Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires

US poet and critic, 1892-1982

character in Priestley's The Doomsday Men, said to have been based on Rosalind Russell

lieutenant general in British army, 1869-1952, author of numerous works on India and military history

British official in India, publisher of an edition of the Arabian Nights, Calcutta, 1839-42

town in Georgia

Scottish poet, 1736-1796, author of Ossianic poems

Roman writer who lived during the early fifth century. Author of the Saturnalia.

scholar of US literature, 1877-1932, author of The Spirit of American Literature

character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

island off east Africa

Argentine film version of the Flaubert novel, directed by Carlos Schlieper, 1947

Flaubert novel, 1857

Spanish literary scholar and biographer, 1886-1978

town in the Campania, Italy

character in Borges story La muerte y la brujula

Portuguese island off Africa in the Atlantic

capital city of Wisconsin

city in southern India, now called Chennai

Fishburn and Hughes: "A seaport in south-east India." (122)

Grendel's mother, monster in Beowulf

Parodi: “La madre María no hace milagros.”: María Salomé Loredo Otaola de Zubiza (1854-1929), nacida en España, se radicó en la Argentina desde 1869. En 1881, gravemente enferma, visitó a Pancho Sierra (1831-1891), el ‘Gaucho Santo Argentino’, miembro de la Sociedad Espiritista de Alan Kardec (cf. “Doce” i §5) y reputado por sus dotes sobrenaturales, por sus poderes telepáticos y por las curaciones que realizaba por imposición de manos. María Loredo, pronto conocida como ‘la Madre María’, se convirtió en su discípula y continuadora. En 1891 inició su labor de curandera y de prédica del Evangelio en su Misión de Turdera (cf. “Signo” §11). El Culto a la Madre María, se rinde especialmente el Día de la Madre y el Día de Los Muertos.

Matka, Capek anti-fascist play, 1938

capital of Spain

Tulio Herrera book of poems, 1961

poem by Wilhelm Klemm, translated by Borges

statue in Brussels

Belgian author, 1862-1949, author of Pelléas et Mélisande and other works, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911

ancient kingdom in India, part of Bihar south of the Ganges

Brazilian poet, author of Versos, 1933

Magariños Cervantes (1825–1893) was an Uruguayan writer and lawyer.

city in Saxony, Germany

Argentine actress

Rabbi Dov Baer, the Maggid of Mesritch or Mezeritz, second leader of Hasidim, d. 1772

Chesterton, play, 1913.

Argentine musician and tango songwriter (1880-1934)

French classical scholar, 1879-1952, translator of Homer

Benito Larrea's quinta in Bustos Domecq story

Viking warrior, died in Dublin

Magnus the Good, son of Olaf, Norwegian king, subject of a saga by Sturla Thordarson

Sturla Thordarsson's saga about king Magnus of Norway

Icelandic scholar, librarian at the University of Cambridge, 1833-1913, translator with William Morris of the Volsunga Saga

Icelandic historian and antiquarian, scholar of the sagas, 1781-1847

enemy of the people of Israel, perhaps a region from which Gog comes

French writer, 1877-1941, theosophist and author of a travel book on India

Arabic name for the west, usually referring to northwest Africa

Egyptian traveler to Persia

Mainz, German city

Hindu epic poem, c.500 B.C.

character in Cervantes

Vardhamana or Jina, Jain god, perhaps based on a historical figure who organized the Jain religion

Fishburn and Hughes: "The title given to Vardhamäna, the last of the twenty-four legendary patriarchs and founders of Jainism, a religion widespread in west India. Jainism conceives the universe as infinite and formed as a slender human figure with legs apart and arms akimbo surrounded by three layers of atmosphere. Mahavira preached severe asceticism, which involved renunciation of violence and all physical pleasures and respect for all living and non-living things." (122-23)

Muhammad Ahmad, Muslim religion leader in the Sudan, 1844-85

Fishburn and Hughes: "Arabic al-Mahdi, meaning 'the guided one': the name given in Islam to the future restorer of the Islamic faith to the world. Reference is to the Mahdi Mohammed Ahmed (1844-1885) who put an end to Egyptian domination in the Sudan. Claiming divine inspiration, the Mahdi overcame the 8,000 strong army of General Hicks. In 1885, after a long siege, he captured Khartoum and murdered General Gordon." (123)

Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Mahdi, Shia Imam, b. 869 and "occulted" 70 years later

Persian Sufi poet, author of the Gulshan i Raz or The Mystica Rose Garden, c.1320

Mahmud of Ghazni, Afghan conqueror, 971-1030, who ordered the compilation of The Surviving Monuments of Past Generations, The Canon dedicated to Mas'ud, and India

Mohammed or Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, 570?-632

Fishburn and Hughes: "Arabic for 'praised one': the name of the prophet and founder of Islam to whom, according to the tradition, the angel Gabriel revealed the infallible word of God. The saying before bowing to the inevitable, 'If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain', refers to the story of Mohammed who, when asked for a miraculous proof of his teaching, ordered Mount Safa to come to him and, as it did not move, said, 'God is merciful. Had it obeyed my words it would have fallen on us to our destruction. I will therefore go to the mountain, and thank God that He has had mercy on a stiff-necked generation.'" (131)

Irving biography, 1849- 1850

character in Eça's Os Maias

Russian poet and dramatist, 1893- 1930

Parodi: Vladimir Maiakovski (1893-1930) fue un poeta y dramaturgo revolucionario ruso y una de las figuras más relevantes de la poesía rusa de comienzos del siglo XX. Iniciador del futurismo ruso, publica en 1912 el manifiesto de ese movimiento en La bofetada al gusto del público.

Eça de Queiroz novel, 1888

town in Massachusetts

character in Borges story, alias of Emmanuel Zunz

Moses ben Maimon, Jewish rabbi, physician and philosopher, 1135-1204, author of the Guide for the Perplexed

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Jewish philosopher, jurist and physician, born at Cordoba and forced to flee from Spain in the persecutions of 1149. He settled first in Fez and then in Cairo, where he became head of the Jewish community and also physician to the Sultan. Maimonides was the leading Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. His Commentary on the Talmud contains a codification of Jewish religious doctrine, its interpretation by existing authorities and his own comments on their moral and philosophical implications. His major philosophical work, written in Arabic, is the Guide for the Perplexed. Basing his interpretation of Judaism upon the systems of Aristotle, Maimonides seeks to achieve a harmony between reason and faith. The Guide was translated into Latin as early as the thirteenth century and exerted a profound influence upon Christian as well as Jewish and Moslem thought. Regarding dreams, in book 2 chs 36-8 of the Guide Maimonides discusses the relationship between prophecy, or divine emanations, and dreams. Breaking with traditional interpretations of the dream as a means of protection from anticipated danger, he develops his idea of the dream as a vision in which the action of the imaginative faculty becomes so perfect that you can see a thing as if it were outside you, and the thing which is produced in the dream appears as if by external sensation. Ch. 36 includes quotations of famous sayings, such as 'Dream is one sixtieth of prophecy', The windfall of prophecy is one dream' and 'If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known to him in a dream' (Numbers 12:6). Although the discussion includes many ideas which seem closely relevant to Borges's story 'The Secret Miracle', the exact assertion attributed by the narrator to Maimonides has not been traced. The idea mentioned in the story that the final interpretation of dreams rests with God stems from Genesis 40:8." (123)

Collection of nouvelles by Guy de Maupassant (1889).

Lewis novel, 1920

state in United States

French nobleman who is said to have published a book at the age of seven, apparently Louis Auguste de Bourbon, 1670-1736

Philipp Batz, German philosopher, 1841-1876, author of Die Philosophie der Erlösung

plain near Santiago, Chile, site of a battle between San Martin and the Spanish forces in 1818, often spelled Maipu

Fishburn and Hughes: "A battle fought on 5 April 1818, some ten miles south of Santiago, Chile, in which General San Martín finally defeated the royalist forces, thus securing the independence of Chile. This victory enabled San Martín to reorganise his army and embark on the last lap of his campaign for the emancipation of southern South America, notably the liberation of Peru." (123)

street in Buenos Aires where Borges lived in the last decades of his life

Parodi: en los años cuarenta, Borges vivió con su madre en la calle Maipú 994, a una cuadra de la Plaza San Martín, en el barrio de Retiro.

character in James Curtis's The Gilt Kid

Collection of nouvelles by Guy de Maupassant (1881).

French novelist, 1763-1852, author of Voyage autour de ma chambre

next Buddha

the second of four Nikayas in the Buddhist scriptures

Shaw play, 1907

Scholem, 1941

character in Grettirs Saga

street in Buenos Aires

city in southern Spain

street in Geneva

Prominent dictionarist from Puerto Rico (1878-1967). Author of Diccionario de americanismos

nickname of Guelf leader, the lord of Verucchio, d. 1312

street in Olivos, suburb of Buenos Aires

Work by W. W. Skeat, 1900.

country, now Malaysia

Malcolm III , Scottish king, 1057-93, character in Shakespeare's Macbeth

character in Priestley's The Doomsday Men, said to be based on Leslie Howard

place in Essex, England where battle of Maldon was fought in 991

Old English poem about a battle between the Northmen and the English in 991

Arroyo Maldonado, stream that crosses the city of Buenos Aires, now covered over

Fishburn and Hughes: "A small stream which marked the northern boundary of the city of Buenos Aires. The surrounding area, Palermo, was reputedly rough, as recalled by Borges in his 'Autobiographical Essay'. Today Maldonado forms part of the city's sewers and flows in pipes beneath the Avenida Juan B. Justo. The 'brook' referred to here is the Maldonado." (123-24)

Parodi: “me salvó la vida hace un rato, cuando la última creciente del Maldonado”: hasta 1929, el arroyo Maldonado era uno de los límites naturales de la ciudad de Buenos Aires; se extendía a cielo abierto aproximadamente desde el barrio de Liniers, en el extremo oeste, hasta Palermo, sobre el Río de la Plata. Con el tiempo, el Maldonado se convirtió en un depósito de basuras y desperdicios que, cuando llovía, se transformaba en una enorme laguna; era muy temido por sus desbordes y por las frecuentes inundaciones que provocaba (de ahí la ironía que encierra el “hace un rato” en el enunciado citado en esta entrada: “hace un rato, cuando la última creciente del Maldonado”). Las excavaciones para entubarlo comenzaron en 1929 y en 1936, ya entubado, se construyó una calle sobre el recorrido del arroyo, la actual Avenida Juan B. Justo. En “Palermo de Buenos Aires” (Evaristo Carriego 109), Borges evoca: “Hacia el poniente quedaba la miseria gringa del barrio, su desnudez. […] había callejones de polvo […] Después: el Maldonado, reseco y amarillo zanjón, estirándose sin destino desde la Chacarita y que por un milagro espantoso pasaba de la muerte de sed a las disparatadas extensiones de agua violenta, que arreaban con el rancherío moribundo de las orillas. Hará unos cincuenta años, después de ese irregular zanjón o muerte, empezaba el cielo […] Lo están encarcelando ahora: ese casi infinito flanco de soledad que se acavernaba hace poco, a la vuelta de la truquera confitería La Paloma, será reemplazado por una calle tilinga, de tejas anglizantes. […] Pensándolo, no creo que el Maldonado fuera distinto de otras localidades muy pobres, pero la idea de su chusma, desaforándose en rotos burdeles, a la sombra de la inundación y del fin, mandaba en la imaginación popular.”

tango

French philosopher, 1638-1715, author of La Recherche de la verité

French artist, 1890-1952, leader of the Lyon Dadaist group, editor of the magazine Manomètre and translator of the Borges poem Atardecer that was published there in French in 1923

Lugones poem in Romances del Rio Seco

Argentine playwright, co-author with Nicolás de las Llanderas of Así es la vida and Los tres berretines, 1932, associated with the acting career of Eva Duarte

Aquilino Ribeiro novel, 1958

French poet and critic, 1555-1628

Francis Iles, novel, 1931.

Argentine Philologist (1910-1962), know as a Hispanist Medievalist, member of the Real Academia Española and the Academia Argentina de Letras.

French poet, 1842-1898, author of Hérodiade and other works

Fishburn and Hughes: "A French poet who, together with Paul Verlaine, is regarded as the founder of the Symbolist movement, which had a marked influence in France throughout the twentieth century. Mallarmé also wrote a number of critical essays: his views on writing derive mainly from the principle that the world exists in order to be written about: 'Le monde est fait pour aboutir à un beau livre' ('The world was made to end in a beautiful book', misquoted by Borges as 'Tout aboutit à un livre' (Disc. 121)). This idea is examined by Borges in 'On the Cult of Books' (TL 358). In his escape from reality, Mallarmé was influenced at first by Baudelaire, both poets having lost a parent in early childhood, but Mallarmé turned increasingly to the intellect, rather than the emotions, in his search for an ideal world. He saw the poet's task as feeling and describing the essences beyond reality. To convey this sense of distilled reality, Mallarmé sought to pare down and condense his language: his later poems were often obscure, relying for their structure on the sound and association of the words employed." (124)

Parodi: Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) poeta simbolista y crítico. Para Borges, Mallarmé es del tipo de escritor que “laboriosamente elabora una obra secreta” (“Francisco de Quevedo” 111). Traductor de los poemas de Poe, Mallarmé procuró alcanzar una poesía pura que presupone la participación activa del lector.

Argentine novelist, 1903-82, author of La ciudad junto a rio inmovil, Historia de una pasion argentina and numerous other works

Sarmiento's uncle, whose story is told in Recuerdos de provincia

one of the Balearic isles to the east of the Spanish coast

city in southern Sweden

Fishburn and Hughes: "The third-largest city of Sweden, founded in the twelfth century, an important port on the Öresund Canal." (124)

Spanish Augustinian ascetic writer and preacher, 1530?- 1589

Gomensoro poem

monthly bulletin, organ of the Asociación Aborigenista Argentina, edited by Marcelo Frogman

Parodi: supuesta publicación mensual editada, dirigida y distribuida a domicilio por Marcelo Frogman. El nombre del boletín responde al programa de la Asociación Aborigenista Argentina de defensa de la causa nativista y recuperación del lenguaje autóctono. ‘Malón’ es el término con que se designaban las inesperadas incursiones de los indígenas en el territorio habitado por españoles y criollos. Entre los colaboradores de la publicación se cuenta el hispanista Mario Bonfanti (cf. “Sangiácomo” i §5).

French writer, 1901-76

Hammett novel, 1930

Italian historian and military officer, 1595-1653, author of Tarquin and court historian to Philip IV of Spain

Malvinas islands, in dispute between Britain and Argentina

town in New York

character in Bustos Domecq story

Parodi: sobrina de la dueña de la mercería; mantenía una relación íntima con Simón Fainberg (cf. supra §7).

Carriego poem in La canción del barrio

giant in Don Quijote de la Mancha

US film director, 1897-1987

Menninger, 1938

El hombre y su universo, Langdon-Davies book, 1930

Shaw play, 1903

Wilkie Collins, 1870.

Charles Gordon/Ralph Connor novel, 1901

Hombre ha creado la muerte, Yeats line from the poem Death

Shand poem in Ferment

David Garnett, 1924

Robert Flaherty film, 1934

Willard Huntington Wright naturalist novel, 1916

Poe story, 1840

Twain novel, 1900

Spencer essay on political philosophy, 1884

Edwin Arlington Robinson narrative poem, 1924

Chesterton stories, 1922

Belloc, 1931

Heinlein science fiction novel, 1950

Chesterton novel, 1908

Hombre que fue rey, story by Kipling, 1888

one act play by Francis Sladen-Smith

Cowen novel, 1934

Chesterton story in The Secret of Father Brown

Graham Greene, novel, 1929.

Chesterton, 1912

battlefield in Uruguay

Fishburn and Hughes: "A battle fought in the department of Colonia, Uruguay, on 17 July 1871, when the revolutionary forces led by Timoteo Aparicio were defeated by the army of the president, Lorenzo Batlle." (124)

ranch in Bustos Domecq story

Döblin, 1926

Argentine writer from Gualeguay, b. 1919

region in south central Spain

city in the Midlands in England

Fishburn and Hughes: "The leading commercial city in the north of England during the nineteenth century. The choice of Manchester as the place of publication of Nahum Cordovero's apocryphal work reflects its strong links with Jewish culture and its association with some of the oldest Sephardi families in England." (124)

Eça de Queiroz novel, 1880

putative author of the Voiage of Sir John Maundeville

devil, here mentioned in connection with gaucho folklore

baker, character in Bustos Domecq story

French painter, 1832-1883

Lenormand play, 1922

central part of New York City

Korzybski, 1921

English writer, 1904-1991

Scandinavian moon god

Unamuno poem

Marcus Manilius, Roman poet, fl. 20 A.D., author of a didactic poem on astrology

Cuban rumba about the street cry or pregón of a peanut seller, composed by Moisés Simons, 1889-1945, first recorded in 1926 or 1927 by Rita Montaner

German novelist, 1875-1955

Parodi: nombre que equivale a ‘niño que orina’, un mote que también alude a la hediondez. El ‘Manneken Piss’ es una pequeña estatua de bronce ubicada en la ciudad antigua de Bruselas que representa a un niño orinando en una fuente; data de 1619.

Manequí de mimbre, Anatole France novel, 1896

Kipling poem

English cardinal, 1833-1892, subject of a biography in Strachey's Eminent Victorians

Germanic god

O'Neill characters

character in Borges-Levinson story

reverend, character in Bustos Domecq story

Parodi: supuesto creador en 1941 de un edificio múltiple, el santuario de las Muchas Musas, en “Postdam” [sic]. Potsdam (y no Postdam) es la capital del Estado de Brandeburgo, ubicada a 24 km al sur de Berlín. La mención de Potsdam permite suponer que ‘Manntoifel’ es una versión fonética de un apellido mundialmente famoso durante la segunda Guerra Mundial, el del General Hasso-Eccard barón de Manteuffel (1897-1978), nacido en Potsdam, el alto militar alemán que dirigió los avances de las tropas blindadas del Tercer Reich tanto en el frente ruso como en el norafricano. Fue el comandante de la División Manteuffel durante la ‘Operación Barbarroja’ (1941), nombre de con que Hitler designó el plan de invasión a la Unión Soviética durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Parodi: alusión a un episodio real de la vida de Enrico Caruso, cuando la “La Mano Negra”, la más antigua asociación mafiosa italiana de América, liderada por el capo Giuseppe Battista Balsamo, le exigió una elevada suma de dinero como ‘protección’ por actuar en el Metropolitan Opera House de Nueva York; Caruso pagó y a esa extorsión siguieron otras; finalmente, la Mafia lo amenazó de muerte. Hasta el año en que murió, Caruso vivió bajo protección policial.

Portuguese king, 1469-1521

Spanish poet, 1440-1479, author of the Coplas a la muerte de su padre

Jorge Manrique's father, the Count of Paredes, 1406-1476

New Zealand-born writer of short fiction, 1888-1923

street in Buenos Aires

Parodi: “en Mansilla, esquina Ecuador”: una intersección cercana al término de la Avenida Alvear, en el barrio de Recoleta.

Argentine writer, colonel and diarist, 1831-1913, author of Excursion a los indios ranqueles, Mis memorias and other works

glacier and river near Bariloche

character in film The Petrified Forest

monster described by Pliny and Flaubert

Fishburn and Hughes: "The Persian form of Parliament of Birds." (124)

Pilar de Lusarreta, 1964.

city in Italy

Written by Federico Barbará

anthology by Borges and Margarita Guerrero, 1953, later revised as the Libro de los seres imaginarios, 1967

Book written by Ciro Bayo in 1931

Kern, 1896

Moulonguet cookbook, 1929

Poe story, 1833

Borges poem added to revised editions of Luna de enfrente

Kipling book of stories, 1893

Italian poet and novelist, 1785-1873, associated with the Risorgimento

Menén Desleal story

Lugones series of poems in El libro de los paisajes

Mexican poet and essayist, 1898-1981, associated with the movement of estridentismo

Machiavelli, Italian author and statesman, 1469-1527, author of the Principe, Discorsi, Arte della guerra and Mandragola

sea god

beach resort in the province of Buenos Aires

Waendelsae, medieval Germanic name for the Mediterranean

city on the Atlantic coast of the province of Buenos Aires

Black Sea

Nepalese god of love

character in Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn

French actor and director, 1913-1998

al-Qazwini's Atharu'l-Bilad, a treatise on geography

one of the "libros serios" Aquiles Molinari sees in Abenjaldún's house, series of illustrated books on world geography from about 1900, published by the Editorial Ibérica in Barcelona

Parodi: obra enciclopédica en cuatro gruesos volúmenes lujosamente encuadernados, con ilustraciones en color y fotografías, publicada en Barcelona por la editorial Ibérica, a principios de 1920. Uno de los volúmenes estaba dedicado al continente americano y los otros, a Asia, Europa y Oceanía−África.

Hawthorne romance, 1860

character in El curioso impertinente, the exemplary novel Cervantes inserted in the first part of the Quijote

 Ford Madox Ford memoirs and reflections on British literature and culture, his final book, 1938; the title given here is Más fuerte que la espada, which is a pretty creative translation

Argentine painter, 1899-1978, known for his paintings of Buenos Aires and of Argentine landscapes

Uruguayan weekly edited by Carlos Quijano, published from 1939 until 1974

Parodi: célebre semanario uruguayo de temas políticos y culturales. Fundado en 1939 por el abogado, periodista y político Carlos Quijano (1900-1984) y clausurado en 1974. El escritor Juan Carlos Onetti (1909-1994) fue secretario de redacción de la revista entre 1939 y 1941; colaboraba además con una columna cultural, “La piedra en el charco”. Marcha contaba con la sección “Literarias” dedicada a la crítica, que estaba a cargo de Emir Rodríguez Monegal y de Ángel Rama. En 1955, Marcha publicó “La fiesta del monstruo”, que en 1977 fue incluido en Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq. Según el testimonio de Bustos Domecq, supuestamente Marcha publicó críticas muy favorables a las obras de Nierenstein Souza, que fueron editadas por la editorial Probeta.

French explorer and general, 1863-1934

Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm's collection of fairy tales, compiled between 1812 and 1857

Gustav Jungbauer, 1923

town in France near Orleans

Fishburn and Hughes: "A forest near Blois, the scene of numerous battles in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870." (124-25)

part-owner of a meatpacking plant

Marcus Antonius, Roman politician and soldier, 83-30

Marcus Aelius Aurelius Antoninus, Roman emperor and writer, 121-180

Marcus Junius Brutus, assassin of Julius Caesar, c. 85-42

Quevedo historical work, 1631-1644

given the context this would seem to be an invented name, but there is a Teodoro Ernesto Marcó listed in Quien es quien en la Argentina, a politician in Entre Ríos, b. 1911

hotel in the Once neighborhood

Parodi: supuesto hotel; para el Once, cf. “Limardo” i §11.

Gospel of Mark in the New Testament

Character in El frac by Ulises Nobody, El frac, 1961

St. Mark the Evangelist

Fishburn and Hughes: "The author of the second synoptic gospel now considered the earliest of the three and the source of Matthew and Luke. With its sixteen chapters, it is the shortest of the gospels, its power lying in the simple narrative of events in the life of Jesus. Mark may have received his information direct from St Peter, which would account for his immediacy. The gospel was written in Hellenistic Greek, the popular dialect of the eastern Mediterranean. Its purpose is clearly evangelical. It emphasises the dramatic presentation of the passion and resurrection of Jesus as the means of achieving the Kingdom of God." (125)

in medieval dialogues between Solomon and Saturn, the name given to Saturn

Fishburn and Hughes: "A fictional Latin name with the connotation 'flame' and 'red' (Rufus), contrasted with Joseph Cartaphilus, an 'earthen man, with grey eyes and grey beard' (see Christ, The Narrow Act, NY 1969, 206)." (125)

Melville novel, 1849

French physician, 1868-1949, translator of the Arabian Nights

Peyrou, book of short stories, 1967.

Argentine poet, novelist, essayist and playwright, 1900-70, author of Adán Buenosayres and numerous other works

He was a French pediatrician(1858 – 1942).

French pediatrician (1858-1942).

character in Bustos Domecq story

Barrie, 1897, about the author's mother

character in Goethe's Faust

Margaret of Navarre, also called Margarita de Angulema, queen of Navarre, 1492-1549, author of Heptameron

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.

French literary critic, author of studies of Erasmus, Rabelais, Flaubert and others

French scholar of China, author of an Anthologie raisonnée de la litterature chinoise, Histoire de la litterature chinoise, Evolution de la prose artistique chinoise and other works

pharmacist, character in Bustos Domecq story

Parodi: supuesto farmacéutico de Burzaco.

Jorge Isaacs novel, 1867

Austrian-born queen of France, 1755-1793

tale from Francisco Espínola’s book Raza ciega

in New Testament, repentant courtesan

in New Testament, mother of Jesus Christ

Argentine theater promoter, 1913-1996, author of Historia del teatro independiente

Miguel Torga story

character in Borges story

Argentine writer, 1893-1946, part of Boedo group, author of Cuentos de la oficina

Argentine film directed by Luis José Bayón Herrera, 1947, based on the 1895 Oscar Wilde play The Ideal Husband

town in West Prussia, now Malbork in Poland

Fishburn and Hughes: "German for Polish Malbork, a town in the Polish province of Gdansk, formerly in East Prussia and closely associated since the thirteenth century with the Teutonic Order." (125)

Wernher's life of the Virgin Mary, 1172, entitled Drei Lieder von der Jungfrau

Marian poetry, a common element of medieval religious poetry in Germany and elsewhere

“no es escrúpulo de Marigargajo”. According to the DRAE (Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy), it is a colloquial adjective which means ridiculous, unfounded, extravagant and non-sense. (Mentioned in Suárez Lynch novella.)

Parodi: “no es escrúpulo de Marigargajo”: “Marigargajo es un personaje proverbial, prototipo de escrúpulos infundados y cochinería, que alardeaba de limpia y escrupulosa, de la que se decía que para saber si el aceite de la sartén estaba caliente, escupía en él. Vive en el dicho Escrúpulo de Marigargajo, o del padre Gargajo, con el significado de escrúpulo infundado, ridículo y falto de razón. Lo mismo se dice de la aseada de Burguillos, otra dama que hacía lo mismo.” (Sánchez 525).

Italian futurist poet, novelist and critic, 1876-1944

Parodi: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876−1944), que en 1909 publicó en París el documento fundador del movimiento futurista (Manifesto del futurismo), al que siguieron el Manifiesto de la literatura futurista (1910), el Manifiesto de los pintores futuristas y el Manifiesto técnico del futurismo (1912) y otros once más. Las doctrinas de Marinetti sobre la literatura y el arte están también expuestas en sus libros Mafarka il futurista (1910), La battaglia di Tripoli (1911) y Parole in libertá (1912). Los postulados del futurismo fueron también adoptados en pintura y escultura, en las artes aplicadas, el teatro, la danza, la moda, el diseño, la fotografía, los juegos onomatopéyicos y tipográficos. Marinetti visitó dos veces la Argentina; en 1926, ocasión en que fue homenajeado por la Revista Martín Fierro, y en 1936, como delegado de Roma al XIV Congreso del PEN Club, realizado en Buenos Aires. Durante esas visitas, organizó en Buenos Aires varias veladas (las “seratas futuristas”). Sus ideas políticas de exaltación belicista y sus simpatías por el fascismo de Mussolini dieron ocasión a enfrentamientos con intelectuales locales; expuso esas convicciones en Democrazia futurista (1919) y Futurismo e fascismo (1924). Sobre Marinetti, cf. también “Toros” i §§2 y 5; iii §8.

Italian poet, 1569-1625, author of Adone

town in Virginia

French philosopher, 1882-1973

prostitute mistaken for damsel in distress by Don Quijote

Saga of the Virgin Mary, c.1200

Walter Pater novel, 1885

DeVoto biography, 1932

Stevenson novella, 1887

Old Norse name for Newfoundland

12th century Icelandic poet, known as Markus the Lawman

first Duke of Marlborough, 1650-1772

character in Conrad

English dramatist and poet, 1564-1593, author of Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta and other works

English waiter who wrote a 1937 memoir "Coming, Sir!

Argentine poet, novelist and politician, 1817-1871, author of Amalia, Cantos de peregrino and other works

Fernández Irala book of poems

title for royal architect, position held by John Gibbon, Edward Gibbon's father

river in France, site of major battle in the First World War

Arolas tango

US novelist, 1893-1960, author of The Late George Apley and other works

scholar of Norse poetry, author of Die Altenglischen Kenningar, 1938

islands in the south Pacific

city in Morocco

Fishburn and Hughes: "A town in Morocco, one of the residences of the Sultan. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it was the North African capital of the Almohad dynasty, under whose rule it enjoyed a temporary flowering of culture. Averroes spent some years of exile in Marrakesh." (125)

Blake prose work, 1790

Morocco

Fishburn and Hughes: "Arabic for 'farthest west', Morocco was a sultanate in north-west Africa inhabited by Arabs, Berbers, Europeans and Jews. It was conquered by the Arabs in the seventh century and by the Almohads in the twelfth and thirteenth." (135)

English sea-captain and novelist, 1792-1848

Marseilles, port city in southern France

English translator of Hermann Keyserling

English painter, d. 1940, wife of David Garnett

British historian, 1602-1685, author of Canon chronicus aegyptiacus, ebraicus, graecus

the planet Mars

Mars, Roman god of war

Fishburn and Hughes: "The Roman god of war." (125)

Danish theologian, 1808-1884, author of works on Christian ethics and dogma, and of a life of Jakob Boehme

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Danish theologian, bishop and court preacher, author of several treatises on Christian ethics and dogma revealing a strong interest in theosophy. Martensen also wrote a sketch on the life of Jakob Boehme." (125-26)

Cuban poet, novelist, journalist and political figure, 1853-1895, author of Versos sencillos, Ismaelillo, Versos libres and other works

Parodi: alusión al político, periodista, ensayista, poeta y revolucionario cubano, celebrado como el padre de la independencia de su país.

Bradbury science fiction novel, 1950

French town

Dickens novel, 1843-44

French author, 1881-1958, author of Jean Barois and L'Été 1914

Jack London, novel, 1909.

Hernández gauchesque poem, published in two parts, El gaucho Martín Fierro, 1872, and La vuelta de Martín Fierro, 1879

Fishburn and Hughes: see Fierro, Martín

Argentine literary magazine founded by Evar Méndez, 1924-27

Literary study written by Vicente Rossi

Argentine writer, author of Una mujer fronteriza, 1924, and El tiempo, 1924

reference to Quinquela Martín

suburb in northern Buenos Aires

Argentine poet and essayist, 1895-1964, author of Radiografía de la pampa, Muerte y transfiguración de Martín Fierro and other works

Fishburn and Hughes: "A prolific Argentine writer whose work reflects a deep concern with his country's development. Radiografía de la Pampa (1933) describes the changes that took place in Argentina in the early 1930s under fascist rule. La cabeza de Goliath (1940) examines the relationship of Buenos Aires to the rest of the country. Muerte y transfiguración del Martín Fierro (2 vols, 1948) is regarded as an outstanding work of literary criticism." (126)

Argentine poet and journalist, 1910-1968

friend of the narrator of the story El soborno, the Spanish literary scholar, 1907-2011, a disciple of Américo Castro and professor at the University of Texas for many years until 1971