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Borges and Buenos Aires: Creating Place from Space in Poetry and Prose

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Abstract

In his early poetry and prose Jorge Luis Borges seeks to establish his own sense of identity within the changing urban landscape of Buenos Aires. Readers of his poems, essays, and short stories are able to follow the process by which Borges interacts with the city of Buenos Aires in order to transform it from space to place within the national imagination. In doing so, he straddles present and past, center and periphery, urban and rural, and real and imagined.

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