Jorge Luis Borges: história social de um escritor nato

Abstract

This essay seeks the social practices that made possible the literary trajectory of Jorge Luis Borges, author who would have erased the traces of his personal life. Taking as a guideline his early writings, family relations and the Argentine literary field in the first decades of the XXth century, the article suggests new keys to the interpretation of Borges’ work.

Jorge Luis Borges; Argentine literature; modernism; sociology of culture