Borges jorge luis biography of martin fierro
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Borges on Martín Fierro
Book by Jorge Luis Borges
Borges on Martín Fierro concerns ArgentineJorge Luis Borges's comments on José Hernández's nineteenth-century poem Martín Fierro.
Borges jorge luis biography of martin fierro
Like most of his compatriots, Borges was a great admirer of this work, which he often characterized as the one clearly great work in Argentine literature. Because Martín Fierro has been widely considered (beginning with Leopoldo Lugones's El Payador, 1916) the fountainhead or pinnacle of Argentine literature, Argentina's Don Quixote or Divine Comedy, and because Borges was certainly Argentina's greatest twentieth-century writer, Borges's 1953 book of essays about the poem and its critical and popular reception–El "Martín Fierro" (written with Margarita Guerrero)—gives insight into Borges's identity as an Argentine.
The poem's central character, Martín Fierro, is a gaucho, a free, poor, pampas-dweller, who is illegally drafted to serve at a border fort defending against Indian atta