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The Jorge Luis Borges Collection
One of the more notable collections in the Special Collections Department
at the University of Virginia Library is that of works by and about the
Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), a distinguished poet and
essayist and one of the finest writers of short stories in world letters.
It contains more than two thousand individual items in virtually all formats,
spanning Borges' career of sixty-five years. The collection's depth is unsurpassed,
and many items it contains are quite rare.
During his lifetime, Borges became renowned as a creative artist whose works
affected modern literature far beyond the borders of his native land. Despite
the critical acclaim Borges enjoyed, however, his books have been uncommonly
difficult to acquire, particularly titles from his first decade of active
literary production. Some early works survive in only a scant handful of
extant copies, the author having recovered and deliberately destroyed many
more. The University of Virginia Library owns copies of all these early
pieces.
The collection was begun in 1977 with the purchase of some 400 titles originally
assembled by a longtime friend of the author, and it has grown through continued
acquisitions on a title-by-title basis. There are copies of every known
first edition, including those from the 1920s which survive in no more than
four or five copies. There are later editions and printings of all Borges'
writings, augmented by translations into a variety of languages. Secondary
works represented in the collection include a comprehensive collection of
literary criticism in many languages, as well as numerous anthologies containing
his works.
There are copies of his collaborative writings, prologues to other authors'
books, and his translations of Faulkner and Whitman. There are interviews
with the author, and some books from his family library. Original manuscripts
in the collection include unpublished items, manuscripts of several major
published literary pieces, and a number of letters. Thus, scholars can study
early works in their first printed form, some from the manuscript stages,
through later variants, printings, editions, or translations. Since Borges
deliberately and regularly altered his work by extensive revision, researchers
can trace the literary journey traveled by the author.
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