HOPSCOTCH and GR foreechoes, so to speak

[Mark Kohut]

And my half-assed erudition---I'm not looking anything up over this small
bit---is bringing a memory that Borges did some famous allusive writing
about the pampas
referencing another older Argentinian writer who set many stories there?
...I think I read one or a couple of this guy's stories because Borges....

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Bruno <bruno.laze at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is also mentioned in the short story The South, by Borges. It was
> published in English in the 50s, and I'm guessing that's where TRP came to
> know it.
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 5:44 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The great Argentinian poem mentioned in GR,
>> *Martin Fierro *is alluded to in Hopscotch.
>>
>> And those *pampas, *another key Argentinian
>> word and concept (in the only two great Argentinian
>> writers I've read) which makes an important appearance
>> in GR appears more than once in Hopscotch...it seems therefore to have
>> some special meanings within, since the novel is set in cities, which I
>> am still trying to work
>> out.
>>
>
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