Argentina: El Buenos Aires de Borges

Professor Julián Gallo was happy to see Borges and Buenos Aires mentioned in the New York Times, but he says [ES] Larry Rohter was mistaken when he wrote that an audio guide of Borges’ city is only available in Spanish. “The audio guide is also available in English and Portuguese, as the following mp3 reveals …” Brandán also reviewed the article and took to task a “a few points where [Rohter] was less than precise. As many Americans are now sure to travel to Argentina's capital city, Jeff Barry's review of Tomás Eloy Martínez's novel, “The Tango Singer,” seems almost prescient: “The Tango Singer is about an American graduate student who travels to Buenos Aires to research Borges’ writings on tango.”

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