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from Part I - Self, Family, and the Argentine Nation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2020
Back in Buenos Aires in 1921 after time spent in Europe, Borges set about creating a mythology for his native city in the throes of modernisation. The ideological dimension of this project was ’criollismo’: a reconstruction of a city half-imagined, half remembered. Through the workings of metonymy, Buenos Aires also doubled for the nation of Argentina. Key texts in this regard include ’The Complaint of all Criollos’ and the volume of poetry, ’Fervour of Buenos Aires’, also echoed in the later poem, ’The Mythological Foundation of Buenos Aires’. In a comparative context, Borges’s work is more in tune with contemporary architect, Alberto Prebisch, than the painter, Xul Solar.
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