Borges and The Eternaut
The Secret Origins of Argentina´s Space Odyssey
The Secret Origins of Argentina´s Space Odyssey
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This book demonstrates that Oesterheld and Borges knew each other and established a friendship based on their many shared interests.
Oesterheld was a devoted reader of Borges, and the latter's work left deep traces in The Eternaut. But these pages also show — and this is probably one of the most astonishing literary discoveries in recent times — that Oesterheld read The Eternaut aloud to (an already blind) Borges, and that this comic left deep traces in several stories by the great Argentine writer.
This book is an invitation to rediscover a classic of Argentine science fiction from a completely new perspective, and to explore the mutual influences between two literary universes that were always closer than we imagined. According to Martin Hadis, The Eternaut, in more ways than one, the great mythological novel of Buenos Aires that Borges never wrote.
This book demonstrates that Oesterheld and Borges knew each other and established a friendship based on their many shared interests.
Oesterheld was a devoted reader of Borges, and the latter's work left deep traces in The Eternaut. But these pages also show — and this is probably one of the most astonishing literary discoveries in recent times — that Oesterheld read The Eternaut aloud to (an already blind) Borges, and that this comic left deep traces in several stories by the great Argentine writer.
This book is an invitation to rediscover a classic of Argentine science fiction from a completely new perspective, and to explore the mutual influences between two literary universes that were always closer than we imagined. According to Martin Hadis, The Eternaut, in more ways than one, the great mythological novel of Buenos Aires that Borges never wrote.