'the most important work of modern Latin American literature', Signed
El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan.
Buenos Aires: Editorial Sur, [30 December 1941; i.e., 1942].
Price: $12,500.00
About the item
First Edition. 124 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue wrappers. Some faint spotting to edges, and first leaf, wrappers soiled but still bright, with price on rear wrapper defaced, and front wrapper split from bottom of spine, in custom cloth clamshell box. Becco 29; Foster A72.1; Helft p. 62; Vallely.
Item #376052
Signed by Borges on title page. The breakthrough volume containing many of his most important fictions written during the preceding five years, including the title story composed in 1941.
"This is Borges's crucial book, arguably the most important work of modern Latin American literature.... it is easy to forget how original, indeed revolutionary, were Borges's procedures, especially in Latin America, which international modernism had yet to penetrate... The light blue wrappers... seem an unmistakable reference to James Joyce's Shakespeare & Co. Ulysses... of which Borges proclaimed himself the first hispanic explorer in his callow youth" (Charles Vallely, Jorge Luis Borges. A Catalogue of Unique Books and Manuscripts, Lame Duck Books, 2003).
