Hopkins, Gerald Manley
Horace
Hour of the Furnaces (film)
Howard, Richard
Hurley, Andrew
Huxley, Aldous, The Doors of Perception
Hymn to Apollo
Ibâñez, Victor Armando
Ideal library
Ideal reader
Identity: constructed; Jewish; of narrator; national, fake; protean; self-discovery
Illia, Arturo Imagination
Insanity: of Alice’s Wonderland; Don Quixote deemed a madman; global madness; of human world
Intellectual property
Ionesco, Eugène, Rhinoceros
Isherwood, Christopher, A Single Man
Islam, and blasphemy
James, Henry; “The Figure in the Carpet,” x; “The Pupil,”
Jerome, Saint
Jesenskà, Milena
Jesuits, translation of Guarini language
Jesus Christ: sense of humor of; via Crucis; and Wandering Jew; wordplay of
Jeter, Jon
Jews: antisemitism in Perón’s Argentina; Borges’s defense of Jewish culture; identity of; perseverance of memory; righteous men (Lamed Wufniks); settlement in Argentina; and Torah; Wandering Jew legend
John of the Cross, Saint
Johnson, Samuel
Jonah (biblical), story of
Joubert, Joseph
Joyce, James; Finnegans Wake
Julius Caesar
Justinian, Emperor
Just society: apology and repentance in; and denial of culpable events; Don Quixote’s pursuit of; and Socrates’ truth-sayers
Kabbalists
Kafka, Franz
Kalyana Malla
Kama Sutra
Kant, Immanuel
Keats, John
Kent, William
Kierkegaard, Søren
Kipling, Rudyard; “Without Benefit of Clergy,”
Knobelsdorff, Georg Wenzeslaus
Kodama, Maria
Kott, Jan, The Essence of Theatre
Krugman, Paul
Lagarde, Christine
Lamartine, Alphonse de
Lamb, Charles and Mary
Lamed Wufniks
La Nación
Language: dogmatic; erotic; fixed languages; infinite vocabulary, translation of; word games,. See also Literature; Reading; Writing
La Prensa
Laughlin, Robert
Lawrence, D. H.; “The Prussian Officer,”; Women in Love
Learning. See Education
Leavitt, David, The Lost Language of Cranes
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Le Monde
Lerner, Isaias
Leroux, Gaston
Lesbianism
Lessing, Doris
Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev, Rabbi
Lewis, C. S., Out of the Silent Planet
Libanius, Apology of Socrates
Libraries: Bibliothèque nationale de France; British Library; cataloguing methods in; as collective memory; constraints on traditional; digital; and exclusion; as home; ideal; Library of Alexandria; library of Don Quixote; of the mind; universal; virtual
Literature: anonymous authors; erotic (see Erotic literature); Greek; as intellectual property; metaphoric; moral questions posed by; narrative voice in; renewing and redefining experience in; survival of; testamentary works; Wandering Jew in,. See also Reading; Writing
Lorca, Federico Garcia
Lord, Albert B.
Lostal, Sauli (pseudonym)
Lourenço, Eduardo
Lucentini, Franco
Lynch, Marta
Mad Hatter
Mahler, Gustav
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Mallea, Eduardo
Mandelstam, Nadezhda, Hope Against Hope
Mandelstam, Osip
Manguel, Alberto: becoming a writer; in Canada; at Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aries; The Dictionary of Imaginary Places; high school teacher of; home library of; Into the Looking-Glass Wood, x; Jewish identity of; News from a Foreign Country Came; in Paris and London; Yourcenar translation of
Manguel, Pablo
Mann, Thomas, Death in Venice
Manutius, Aldus
Manutius, Aldus, the Younger
Mao Tsetung
March Hare
Martial
Marx, Karl
Masson, Paul
Maugham, Somerset
Maupin, Armistead, Tales of the City
Maximus of Constantinople, Saint
Mayan language, translation of
Mazzanti, Enrico
Melville, Herman; Moby-Dick
Memory: books; and commemoration; electronic; false; library as; and library of the mind; perseverance of
Menchú, Rigoberta
Menem, Carlos
Mengele, Josef
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
Merwin, W. S.
Metaphor
Metonymy
Meyrink, Gustav
Miami News
Michaux, Henri
Michelangelo
Midrash
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Miller, Henry
Milton, John, Paradise Lost
Minnereden
Misogyny
“Misterio de la cruz” (attributed to Borges)
Monetary value: of art; precedence of; profit vs. creativity
Montaigne, Michel de
Montesquieu, baron de
Montezuma, treasure of
Montoya, Antonio Ruiz de
Monuments, commemorative
Moravia, Alberto; The Conformist
More, Thomas, Utopia
Moses
Muhammad
Munro, Alice, “Material,” 18
Murat, Ulises Petit de
Nabokov, Vladimir; Lolita; on translation
Narrative voice
National Commission on Disappeared People
Nazi Germany
Nazism, Borges’s attack on
Nefzawi, Sheik al-, Perfumed Garden
Neruda, Pablo
Nervo, Amado
New York Times
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nin, Anaïs
Nineveh, city of (biblical)
Nooteboom, Cees, In the Dutch Mountains
Novalis
Nuovi argomenti
Nyssen, Hubert
Ocampo, Silvina
Ocampo, Victoria
Odyssey (Homer); blindness in; Dante’s version of; false beginnings and endings in; Plato’s version of; Proteus in; on scrolls; Sirens’ song in
Old Testament: Adam’s naming task; blindness in; Creation; Garden of Eden; Jonah story
Ongania, Juan Carlos
Otero, Blas de
Ouri, Rabbi
Ovid; Ars amatoria
Oviedo, Fernández de
Ozick, Cynthia; “The Pagan Rabbi,”
Page: codex; defined; dual nature of; scroll; shape of; Sumerian; and textual design; turning of
Paglia, Camille
Pailler, Jean-Marie
Palacios, Alfredo
Papyrus
Parchment
Parry, Milman
Paul, Saint
Pavese, Cesare
Paz, Octavio
Peacock, Thomas Love, Nightmare Abbey
Perec, Georges, La Disparition
Peregil, Francisco
Perkins, Maxwell
Perón, Isabel
Perón, Juan Domingo, pro-Nazi activities of
Peru, Vargas Llosa’s comparison of Argentina and
Peyrefitte, Roger, Particular Friendships
Pharmaceutical companies, AIDS drugs of
Philip II of Spain
Philippe, Charles-Louis, Bubu de Montparnasse
Phillips, David Atlee
Piñón, Nélida
Pinter, Harold
Pizarnik, Alejandra
Plato; Apology; Republic
Plural
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poetry: defined; gay; impact on worldly events; metonymy; Pound’s editing of The Wasteland; wordplay in
Politkovskaya, Anna
Polo, Marco
Pope, Alexander
Pornography: defined; vs. erotic literature