Jorge Luis Borges

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:47:44 +0000

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was one of the most famous Spanish-language authors in the world and was often a contender for the Nobel prize for literature, but never received it. Some speculate that this was because of his anarcho-pacifist views. An Argentinean and a world citizen, he is known primarily for his short stories, of which he wrote an innumerable quantity.

Wikipedia:
Jorge Luis Borges

Novel in English, from Amazon:

Six Problems of Don Isidro

Short story collections in English, from Amazon:

A Universal History of Iniquity
A Universal History of Infamy
Ficciones
A Personal Anthology
Dreamtigers
Labyrinths
The Book of Imaginary Beings
Brodie’s Report
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory
The Aleph
Everything & Nothing (a “best-of”)
Borges: Collected Fictions (apparently, all of his stories)

Rafael Barrett

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:58:52 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Rafael Barrett (1876–1910), a Spanish immigrant to Paraguay, was the sort of writer whose works were influential on other people who themselves became more influential. He wrote all types of things, including short stories, but his primary vessel was journalism. He wrote and published a lot, running an anarchist newspaper. One of his more famous pieces was Lo que son los yerbales, an account of the conditions on Yerba Mate farms. He was also an outspoken anarchist (very much the sort that preferred the pen to dynamite), and for this he earned contempt and was at one point exiled to Uruguay. In his essay My Anarchism (as translated by Paul Sharkey), he begins simply: “The etymology is good enough for me ‘Absence of government.’ The spirit of authority and the standing of the laws must be destroyed. That says it all.”

Wikipedia:
Rafael Barrett

My Anarchism:
Online at the Kate Sharpley Library

Writings in Spanish (I cannot find translations of his works other than “My Anarchism.”)

Anarchist Fiction dot Net » Spanish

Jorge Luis Borges

Rafael Barrett