Ackerley, J.R.
Adair, Gilbert
Adam (biblical)
Addison, Joseph
Advertising
Ahasuerus (Wandering Jew)
AIDS drugs, in South Africa
Albee, Edward, Who ‘s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Albin Michel
Alexandria, Library of
Alfonsín, Raul
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll); first reading of; insane world of; protean identities in; rereading
Amazon.com, best-seller lists of
Am-Bass press
Ambrose, Saint
Amnesty International
Amundsen, Roald
Anales de Buenos Aires
Andersen, Hans Christian, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,”
Anderson, Jon Lee
Anderson Imbert, Enrique
Andreyev, Leonid
Apollinaire, Guillaume, Calligrammes
Apollonius of Rhodes
Apuleius; The Golden Ass
Aquinas, Saint Thomas; Summa Theo-logica
Archbold, Rick
Arenas, Reinaldo
Argentina: antisemitism in; Che Guevara in; Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires; Communist Party of; Disappeared (Desaparecidos) of; government coups in; Jewish settlement in; memory groups in; military amnesty for human rights abuses; under military dictatorship; “misery villages” of; and Perón’s pro-Nazi activities
Aristophanes
Aristotle, Parva naturalia
Armenian massacre
Arnold, Matthew; “Dover Beach,”
Art: of advertising; fool’s; artists in Ninevite society; monetary value of
Assis, Machado de
Astete de Millán, Elsa
Attar, Farid ud-din, Assembly of the Birds
Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale
Auden, W. H.
Augustine, Saint; books of; Confessions; on reading; reading ritual of; study of
Augustus, Emperor Author and Editor: A Working Guide
Aztec treasure, value of
Babel, Isaac
Bajarlia, Juan Jacobo
Baker, Carlos
Banchs, Enrique
Barbie, Klaus
Barrientos, René
Barthes, Roland
Basri, Hasan Al-
Bataille, Georges
Batista, Fulgencio
Baudelaire, Charles
Beckett, Samuel
Beckford, William, Vathek
Beerbohm, Max
Behn, Aphra, The Rover
Beirut, images of
Bellay, Joachim de, Défense et exemple de la langue française
Belloc, Hilaire
Benet, Juan, Una meditación
Benjamin, Walter
Bernárdez, Aurora
Bernes, Jean-Pierre
Best-seller lists
Bezos, Jeff
Bianciotti, Héctor
Bianco, José
Bible. See Old Testament
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bioy Casares, Adolfo
Birkerts, Sven, The Gutenberg Elegies
Blake, William Blanchot, Maurice Blasphemy
Blindness: of Homer; and inner reality; in Odyssey; in Old Testament; reader’s positive
Boehringer Ingelheim
Bolaños, Luis de
Bookkeeping, as earliest writing
Bookman, best-seller list of
Books: in Augustine’s library; on bestseller lists; blasphemy charge against; classification of; vs. electronic media; memory of; and production process; as property,. See also Electronic text; Libraries; Page; Reading
Borges, Jorge Luis; all-in-one theme of; death of; on editing; editions and translations of works; fake representations as fictional device of; false attribution of writings to; on Jewish culture; literary ambition of; love life of; marriages of; physical injury to; relationship with Estela Canto; Shakespeare lecture of; shaky voice of; on Ulysses; women characters of — Works: “El acercamiento a Almotásim,”; “The Aleph,”; “The Circular Ruins,”; “The Congress,”; “Death and the Compass,”; “Deutsches Requiem,”; “The Duel,”; “The Elderly Lady,”; “Everything and Nothing,”; Fervor de Buenos Aires; Ficciones; Historia de la eternidad; “I, a Jew,”; “The Immortal,”; “The Intruder,”; El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan; “The Library of Babel,”; “The Lottery of Babylon,”; Nine Essays on Dante; “1964,”; “Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote,”; “The Search of Averroës,”; “The South,”; “25 August 1983,”; “Ulrica,”; A Universal History of Infamy; “Utopia of a Man Who Is Tired,”; “The Witness,”; “The Zahir,”
Boswell, John, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
Boudjedra, Rachid
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de
Bradbury, Ray; Fahrenheit; The Martian Chronicles; “There Will Come Soft Rains,”; “Usher II,”
Brecht, Bertolt
Breton, André, Anthologie de l’humour noir
Bringing Up Baby
British Library
Brodsky, Joseph
Brooke, Rupert
Browne, Thomas
Buddha, sense of humor in
Bunyan, John
Burgon, J. W.
Büring, Johann Gottfried
Burroughs, William
Burson-Marsteller company
Butler, Samuel
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Caillois, Roger
Caldwell, Erskine
Calgacus Callimachus
Campbell, Roy
Campos, Haroldo do
Canto, Estela
Canto, Patricio
Čapek, Karel
Capote, Truman, Other Voices, Other Rooms
Carnegie, Andrew
Carpaccio, Vittore
Carpentier, Alejo
Carroll, Lewis. See also Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking-Glass
Cartwright, William, The Royal Slave
Cary, H.F.
Casanova, Giacomo
Castro, Fidel
Cato the Censor
Celan, Paul
Cellini, Benvenuto
Censorship, in translations
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, The Labors of Persiles and Segismunda. See also Don Quixote
Chants royaux du Puy de Rouen
Chateaubriand, François de
Chesterton, G. K.
Chile
Chomsky, Noam
Christopher Street
Ciechanower, Mauricio
Clarín
Clarke, Arthur C., “The Nine Billion Names of God,”
Cocteau, Jean
Codex
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aries
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; “Kubla Khan,”
Colette
Collier, John, His Monkey Wife
Collins, Wilkie
Collodi, Carlo, Adventures of Pinocchio
Commemoration of victims
Computer: memory; scrolling; and word play. See also Electronic text
Conti, Haroldo
Cooper, Dennis
Copyediting
Copyright, of drug formulas
Cortázar, Julio; Hopscotch; “House Taken Over,” 281
Cortés, Hernán
Cousineau, Phil
Cozarinsky, Edgardo
Creation
Crisol
Crítica
Cuban Revolution
Culture, translation of
Cuneiform script
Dahl, Roald
Dante; Borges’s essays on; Commedia; Inferno; on levels of reading; Paradiso; Purgatorio; and Sirens’ song; testamentary work of; Ulysses of
Darwich, Mahmoud
Denevi, Marco
De Quincey, Thomas
Descartes, René
Dickens, Charles; Little Dorrit
Dickinson, Emily Dinesen, Isak Dink, Hrant Disappeared (Desaparecidos)
Dobrizhoffer, Martin, Geschichte der Abiponer
Dodos, extinction of
Donne, John
Don Quixote (Cervantes); Cervantes identified with fictional hero; library of Don Quixote; poetry in; pursuit of justice in; readers in; rereading of; as testamentary work; time of Don Quixote
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (film)
Dryden, John, King Arthur
Duchamp, Marcel
Ebenhech, Franz Georg
e-books. See Electronic text
Eco, Umberto; The Name of the Rose
Economic value. See Monetary value
Editors, role of
Editors on Editing
Education: and basic human needs; a citizen’s; constraints on learning to read; and critical questioning; humanist; vs. job training; prestige of; reading instruction; in scholastic classroom
Eichmann, Adolf
Elberg, Yehuda
Electronic text: vs. books; library of; page of; and purpose of reading; reading voice of
Eliot, T. S., The Waste Land
Ellis, Bret Easton, American Psycho
El País
Eluard, Paul
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Engel, Marian; Bear
Engels, Friedrich, The Origins of the Family
Enigma de la calle Arcos (attributed to Borges)
Enlightenment
Epic of Gilgamesh
Erasmus
Erotic experience: of children; condemnation of; and erotic objects; as solitary
Erotic literature: constraints on; language of; learning from; myth of Eros and Psyche; vs. pornography; universal library
Erzenga, Hovhannés d’ (Blouz)
Esmenard, Francis
Exile, and perseverance of memory
Faerie Queene (Spenser)
Fagles, Robert
Family Circus
Faulkner, William
Fierstein, Harvey, Torchsong Trilogy
Filología
Findley, Timothy; The Butterfly Plague
Finkielkraut, Alain, The Imaginary Jew
Firbank, Ronald, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flaubert, Gustave; Dictionary of Clichés; Madame Bovary
Fleming, Victor
Flödényi, Lázló
Fondo de Cultura Económica
Forché, Carolyn
Forster, E. M.: A Passage to India; Maurice
Foucault, Michel: History of Sexuality; Les Mots et les choses
Fourier, Charles
Fournival, Richard de
Franci, Giovanna
Francklin, Thomas
François I
Frank, Anne
French Revolution
Friedrich II (“the Great”) of Prussia: “Le Conte du violon,”; gardens at Sanssouci; rebellious youth of; and Voltaire
Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia
Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia
Frye, Northrop
Full stop, in writing systems
Futurology
Gale, Patrick
Gallimard, Antoine
Gándara, Carmen
Garden of Eden
Gardens: and reading association; as “readymades,”; at Sanssouci
Gardner, Martin
Garnett, Constance
Garnett, Edward
Gauden, John
Gaudí, Antoni
Gay literature
Gays. See Homosexuality Genesis
Genet, Jean, Our Lady of the Flowers
Germany: apology and repentance of; Kultur; Nazi
Gide, André; Les Caves du Vatican; Les Nourritures terrestres; Si le grain ne meurt
Giordano, Tomás E.
Giovanni, Norman Thomas di
GlaxoSmithKline
Goebbels, Joseph
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gogol, Nikolai
Golding, Louis, The Jewish Problem
Goldwyn, Sam
Gordimer, Nadine
Gorky, Maxim, “A Man Is Born,” 108
Grant, Cary
Graves, Robert
Greek literature. See also individual authors
Greene, Graham; Travels with My Aunt
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Gross, Gerald
Guadalupi, Gianni
Guarini language, translation of
Guevara, Ernesto “Che”: appeal to younger generation; background of; capture and execution of; and revolutionary cause
Gurganus, Alan
Gustafsson, Lars, Death of a Beekeeper
Hardy, Thomas
Harris, Frank
Hawkes, John
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, American Notebooks
Hazlitt, William
Heft, Nicolás
Heine, Heinrich; Atta Troll; “Die Lorelei,”
Heliodorus
Hemingway, Ernest
Heraclitus
Heresy, vs. blasphemy
Herodotus
Hirsch, Baron
Hita, Arcipreste de, Book of Loving Well
Hitler, Adolf
Hobbes, Thomas
Hokusai
Hollinghurst, Alan
Holocaust
Homer: blindness of; historical conceptions of; Iliad; as narrative voice; on sterility of war. See also Odyssey
Homosexuality: gay literature; gay terminology for; male and female; tolerance and intolerance of
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
Pound, Ezra
Procrustes
Profit, as measure of value Proteus
Proust, Marcel; La Prisonnière
Publishing industry: editor’s role in; and electronic reading; promotion of books; and small publishers
Puig, Manuel; Kiss of the Spider Woman
Punctuation
Queen’s Quarterly
Quem auctor intendit (“what the author intended”)
Queneau, Raymond, A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems
Quintilian
Qur’an
Rabelais
Ramelli, Agostino
Reading: alterations over time; as anonymous act; Augustine on; commentary on text; and comprehension; constraints on; Dante’s levels of; democratic; devotional; electronic text; forms of; future of; gardening associated with; as homecoming; ideal reader; imaginary space of; interactive text; learning to read; naming task in; purpose of; reader’s positive blindness; and rereading; as safe place in incomprehensible world; and self-discovery; silent; subversive readings; turning of a page. See also Books; Libraries; Literature
Reagan, Ronald
Rechy, John
Reid, Alastair
Religion: and blasphemy; contrition ritual in; conversion of Guarini; etymology; and humor; Kabbalists
Renard, Jules
Renham, Henry de
Ricci, Franco Maria
Rimbaud, Arthur
Risso Platero, Emma
Rivadavia (pseud.)
Roa Bastos, Augusto
Robespierre, Maximilien
Rodriguez, Félix
Rojas, Pedro
Roman de la Rose
Romilly, Jacqueline de, La Grèce antique à la découverte de la liberté
Rowling, J. K.
Rushdie, Salman
Ruskin, John
Russell, Bertrand
Sabato, Ernesto
Sade, marquis de
Saer, Juan José
Saikaku, Ihara
Salinger, J. D.; Catcher in the Rye
Sanssouci, gardens at
Santiago, Hugo
Sarduy, Severo
Saro-Wiwa, Ken
Saturday Night
Sayers, Dorothy L.
Schliemann, Heinrich
Scholasticism
Scholem, Gershom
Schrott, Raoul
Schwarz-Bart, André
Schwob, Marcel, Imaginary Lives
Sciascia, Leonardo
Scientific research: on AIDS drugs; as intellectual property; moral imperatives in; and profit
Scilingo, Adolfo Francisco
Scott, Walter, Kenilworth
Scrolls
Scudéry, Mademoiselle de, Clélie
Selich, Andrés
Sexuality. See Erotic experience; Erotic literature; Homosexuality
Shakespeare, William; Borges’s lecture on; The Comedy of Errors; Henry IV; King Lear
Shaw, George Bernard; Major Barbara
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shi Huangdi
Siciliano, Enzo
Simenon, Georges
Sirens: dangers of song; of Dante; descriptions of; legends about; in Odyssey; in Republic
Smith, Corlies M.
Soames, Enoch
Socrates; on truth-sayers
Solanas, Fernando
Song of Songs
Sophocles, Ajax
Sorrentino, Fernando
South Africa, AIDS drugs in
Spain, Franco-era
Spectator
Stair, Nadine
Stalin, Joseph
Stallo, Luis
Stampa
Stein, Gertrude
Steinbeck, John
Steiner, George; After Babel
Stendhal; The Red and the Black
Sterne, Laurence; Tristram Shandy
Stevens, Wallace
Stevenson, Robert Louis; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Treasure Island
Stewart, Paul
Stoppard, Tom, The Invention of Love
Sue, Eugène
Suetonius
Sumerian slabs and tablets
Summers, Claude J., Gay Fictions
Sur
Swan, Susan
Swift, Jonathan; Gulliver’s Travels
Talmud, Babylonian
Taylor, Bayard, Joseph and His Friend
Tenniel, John
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Testamentary works
Thomas, Edward
Thoreau, Henry David, “Civil Disobedience,”
Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll); constructed identity in; insane world of; literary faith in; naming task in; reading experience in; Red Queen’s denial in
Tiberius, Emperor
Torah
Torpéist, Senchán
Torre, Guillermo de
Trag, William
Translation
Truth, perseverance of
Truth-sayers
Tzotzil dictionary
Valéry, Paul
Value: of art; Mad Hatter’s code of; of Montezuma’s treasure; precedence of economic; words denoting
Vargas Llosa, Mario, defense of Menem’s amnesty
Varro, Marcus
Vellum
Vermeer, Johannes, View of Delft
Verne, Jules, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Victor Gollancz
Victoria, Queen
Vidal, Gore, The City and the Pillar
Videla, Jorge
Viking Penguin
Viola, Roberto
Virgil
Vise, David, The Bureau and the Mole
Vitali, Guido
Völsunga Saga
Voltaire: Candide; Essai sur les moeurs; and Friedrich II; at Sanssouci; Sémiramis
Walcott, Derek
Walcott, Joyce
Walpole, Horace
Walsh, Rodolfo
Wandering Jew
Warfare, universal
Washington Post
Weldon, Fay
Wells, H. G., The Island of Dr. Moreau
Wendover, Roger of West, Rebecca
White, Edmund, A Boy’s Own Story
Whitman, Walt; Leaves of Grass
Wilbur, Richard
Wilde, Oscar; The Picture of Dorian Gray; “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.,”
Wilderness, garden as
Williams, Tennessee, One Arm and Other Stories
Wilson, Edmund
Winterson, Jeanette, The Passion
Winthrop, Theodore, Cecil Dreme
Wolf, Friedrich August
Wolfe, Thomas
Woolf, Virginia
Word games
World Digital Library
Writing: and author’s intentions; becoming a writer; as collaborative effort; cuneiform script; and editor’s interventions; invention and development of; and literary ambition; obligation of truth; punctuation of; warfare as constraint on,. See also Literature
Xenophanes of Colophon
Xueqin Cao
Yakhontov, Vladimir
Yeats, William Butler
Yourcenar, Marguerite: Alexis; A Blue Tale; “How Wang Fo Was Saved,”