Fragmento
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- Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
- Poem or Poetry
- Language(s)
- Spanish
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- Author
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Translator
- di Giovanni, Norman Thomas
- Compiling Editor
- di Giovanni, Norman Thomas
- Writer of Prefatory Matter
- Borges, Jorge Luis
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- Contained in
- Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Poems, 1923-1967, ed. Norman Thomas di Giovanni
- Location Details
- Page 158
- City
- [New York]
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
- Date
- 1972
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- Relationships
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Collocates with -> Composición escrita en un ejemplar de la gesta de Beowulf, Borges, Jorge Luis (1972)Collocates with -> Fragment, Borges, Jorge Luis (1972)Collocates with -> Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf, Borges, Jorge Luis (1972)(Upstream) Reproduces in new context -> Fragmento, Borges, Jorge Luis (1964)(Downstream) Reformatted and recontextualized as -> Fragmento, Borges, Jorge Luis (1974)
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- Descriptive Notes
Book is xxxi + 329 pp. A bilingual collection of Borges' poems from several previous books, with English versions facing the Spanish originals, provided by a dozen different translators. The main contents are preceded by a Foreword by Borges (xv-xvi) and an Introduction by di Giovanni (xvii-xxviii). The volume contains translations of most other poems written by Borges around the same time that engage with Old English literature or early English history.
"Fragmento" begins:
Una espada,
Una espada de hierro forjada en el frío del alba,
Una espada con runas
Que nadie podrá desoír ni descifrar del todo,
una espada del Báltico que será cantada en Nortumbria, (158; sentence continues)And it ends:
Una espada para la mano
Que ganará un reino y perderá un reino,
Una espada para la mano
Que derribará la selva de lanzas.
Una espada para la mano de Beowulf. (158)- Authentication
BAM.
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- Last Updated
- 03/30/2022