A great creation of Sabat, Jorge Luis Borges, is the splendid poster, made especially, the great exhibition Infinity Borges , which opens at the Casa de las Americas Madrid, next Friday. The Writer’s Museum and the House join forces to deploy more than 400 personal items, first editions, photographs, publications, correspondence and recordings, a biographical journey in which half of the objects are exhibited for the first time.
Israel Doncel Martin, press officer of the House of America, told Clarin that the exhibition explores facets of the author as family relationships and their links with other writers like Julio Cortazar, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Juan Carlos Onetti and Ernesto Sabato. Also participating in the film, the relationship of the family with President Sarmiento, which testifies the letter that the President told his grandfather, and that will be exhibited for the first time to the public, or passing through Spain.
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in addition, may find first editions, dedicated books, recordings of his voice, pictures with his intellectual circle, illustrations that accompanied their works or publications in which he participated as the first issue of the magazine “Destiempo” which he created with Bioy Casares and preserved very few copies .
“The main reason is a tribute to Borges on the thirtieth anniversary of his death, which met in June, Claudio Pérez, curator said. Perez stressed that present many of the master’s works, especially his poetry and short stories, published in different media such as prominently the cultural supplements of Clarin
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Among the pieces are the copy of the Aleph that belonged to Julio Cortazar and leads his signature on the title page; the Poems 1923-1943 , which belonged to Ramon Gomez de la Serna and bearing the handwritten inscription, the first editions of all the works of the author. And the audio recording of the interview that Victoria Ocampo was performed for the book “Dialogue with Borges.”
One of the pieces that highlights the curator of the exhibition, which recalls the two-year stay in Spain Borges is the volume of Wine, Water and Songs , a book GK Chesterton a jovencísimo Borges acquired in Granada in 1919, and dated and signed in pencil on the back. This book retained much of his life.
But the most exciting thing for Carlos Perez, is the photograph of the English paternal grandmother of the writer, Frances “Fannny” Haslam, born in Northhumberland, who arrived in Argentina accompanied by her sister, married to a Italian who started a business in our country. Risking life, embarked for the long and dangerous journey to Europe to join the family, in the late 1860s.
Linked to the movies from his youth, Jorge Luis Borges also took time to write screenplays, which can be seen in this exhibition, such as orilleros or the paradise of believers . In addition musicalizó several of his poems as shown in the collection “Living Voice of Latin America”.
Carlos Perez stressed that the exhibition materials are selected from the Museum’s collection Writer Madrid. “When one enters the borgeano universe, they are opening different forking paths creating ever new possibilities. The literary work of Borges is so diverse and original that never seem to end when they develop different lines offered. Borges infinity, infinite and there is a particular bearing his name. ”
The Writer’s Museum, which is based in Madrid, is a private collection designed to keep personal memory of Spanish language writers . It consists of about five thousand personal items, books and documents that are considered important in the development of the life of the various authors. one part is permanently displayed and the background temporary exhibitions in different areas.
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