Credit Pages from an Accounting Ledger, a Fair Copies of the Borges Tales from 1939 to 1941

This article focuses on Borges’s practice of writing the second drafts of most of the stories in The Garden of Forking Paths, the book published in 1941, in Credit pages from an accounting ledger. After reconstructing the contents of this ledger (which was dismembered after being used), the draft of...

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Main Author:	Balderston, Daniel
Format:	Online
Language:	spa
Published:	Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2020
Subjects:	Borges manuscripts accounting ledger The Garden of Forking Paths Examination of the Work if Herbert Quain manuscritos cuaderno de contabilidad El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan Examen de la obra de Herbert Quain caderno de contabilidade Jardim das bifurcações Exame da obra de Herbert Quain
Online Access:	https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/la_palabra/article/view/11585

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Summary:	This article focuses on Borges’s practice of writing the second drafts of most of the stories in The Garden of Forking Paths, the book published in 1941, in Credit pages from an accounting ledger. After reconstructing the contents of this ledger (which was dismembered after being used), the draft of “Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain.” From detailed examination of differences between this manuscript and the version published in Sur, it is possible to date this version with some precision.