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An unofficial holiday declared itself after the Argentines qualified for the final, and in fact horn honking, paper throwing and impromptu parades through the streets had gone on more or less constantly for most of the month. The ecstasy had reached heights of unexpected loftiness -soccer is a workingman'...
All of which has provided no comfort for Argentina's pre-eminent master of poetry and prose, Jorge Luis Borges. Appalled at the prospect of weeks of soccer mania, he says he is leaving Buenos Aires for the World Cup duration. Usually a staunch Anglophile, Borges has even turned...
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author: "There's something infamous about the tango. How can I put it? Something brutal and at the same time sentimental. Like Wagner."
Among the most telling sections in Sontag's short book is an argument that emerges from the fragmented nature of photography: "The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own." This reality, Sontag urges, is rendered surrealist by the...
Borges includes a few of his gaucho stories: spare, Kiplingesque tales of hard drinking and knife fights in provincial Argentina, where, he says, there is no small town "that isn't exactly like all the others - even to the point of thinking itself different." Such stories of pure action...