BORGES, Jorge Luis. Historia universal de la infamia. Buenos Aires: Editorial Tor, 1935. Octavo, 144pp. First edition. A fine copy, slightly foxed, in Victoria Ocampo's customary personal binding of heavy cream linen-covered boards with the original wrappers bound in. Becco 25. Loewenstein 346. A presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title to Victoria Ocampo: "A Victoria, con toda mi amistad. Jorge Luis Borges, Buenos Aires, 24 de julio." Borges met Ocampo in 1925 through Ricardo Güiraldes, with whom he was editing Proa. The present copy is one of inestimable personal and literary importance. The emotional quality of Borges's relationship to Ocampo, while complex and even tortured, represents an unfathomable necessity without which there might be no Borges as we know him. And the literary quality of the association represents a relationship of the highest order between two remarkable personages.

INSCRIBED TO VICTORIA OCAMPO

• Category: Extraordinary Books, Manuscripts & Art
• Keywords: Inscribed · LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
• Language: Deutsch
• Inventory number: 2504LB

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