Biografía y archivo. Una conferencia de Jorge Luis Borges escrita por un agente de inteligencia policial

On May 28, 1970, Jorge Luis Borges delivered the conference “Junín and the Conquest of the Desert” in that city. Among the audience present, an agent of the local intelligence services listened, wrote and sent to his superiors a version of the lecture and his impressions, a singular record that is kept in the Archives of the Intelligence Directorate of the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires (DIPPBA). The aim of the article is to inscribe the document on two levels: (1) to expose some notes and reflections on the narration of lives, biographical and autobiographical moments in the writing and literary aesthetics of Jorge Luis Borges that point to themes related to what was supposedly exposed in the conference; (2) to situate the document, the logics of the archive and the political context that surrounded it, and to put this in dialogue with the previous point. And, interweaving both, to analyze in methodological and analytical terms, the tense relations between biography, autobiography and archive

Art · Humanities · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity · Latin American Literature Analysis · Latin American Literature Studies