El Vuelta de Martin Fierro [Tearsheet of newspaper column, marked and corrected by the author in ink].
[Buenos Aires: La Prensa, 1935].
Price: $1,000.00
About the item
Two column essay, published on page two of section two of La Prensa for 24 November 1935. 1 vols. 4to. Toned, folded. Very good. Helft, p. 42.
Item #324786
Literary essay by Borges on literary topics connected with the beloved classic of gaucho literature, Martin Fierro, but also touching upon Cervantes, Stevenson, Mark Twain, Marcel Proust, Don Segundo Sombra by his contemporary and friend Ricard Güiraldes.
Borges has corrected more than a dozen typographical errors and omissions.
This was collected in Textos recobrados 1931-1955 (2001), pp. 126-30.