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Dedication Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Prologue: A Figure of Speech 1. Celebrating the Marriage 2. A History of the Romance 3. Off on the Wrong Foot 4. The Norton Lectureship 5. Meeting Borges and Setting Out with a Master 6. Georgie’s Mystery, Elsa’s Bombshell 7. A Visitor and a Yard of Ale 8. Vietnam, Olga, and Harvard Square 9. Borges on Tour 10. Invitations and Goodbyes 11. Interregnum 12. Arrival 13. Settling In 14. The Recoleta 15. Cracks in the Façade 16. Oklahoma and the Fur Coat 17. Hobnobbing with the Rockefellers 18. New York and the Fur Coat 19. Buenos Aires and the Fur Coat 20. Silent Sufferer 21. An Aside 22. The Breaking Point 23. The Reckoning 24. Amongst the Lawyers 25. The Night of the Oxford Martyrs 26. Escape to Córdoba 27. The Mosquito and the Judge 28. The Salem Mystery Solved 29. Return to Maipú 30. Looking Back Epilogue: Ave Atque Vale A note on Borges Picture Section Copyright About the Publisher
To M., who guided and inspired
To Derek and to Tom
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Prologue: A Figure of Speech
1. Celebrating the Marriage
2. A History of the Romance
3. Off on the Wrong Foot
4. The Norton Lectureship
5. Meeting Borges and Setting Out with a Master
6. Georgie’s Mystery, Elsa’s Bombshell
7. A Visitor and a Yard of Ale
8. Vietnam, Olga, and Harvard Square
9. Borges on Tour
10. Invitations and Goodbyes
11. Interregnum
12. Arrival
13. Settling In
14. The Recoleta
15. Cracks in the Façade
16. Oklahoma and the Fur Coat
17. Hobnobbing with the Rockefellers
18. New York and the Fur Coat
19. Buenos Aires and the Fur Coat
20. Silent Sufferer
21. An Aside
22. The Breaking Point
23. The Reckoning
24. Amongst the Lawyers
25. The Night of the Oxford Martyrs
26. Escape to Córdoba
27. The Mosquito and the Judge
28. The Salem Mystery Solved
29. Return to Maipú
30. Looking Back
Epilogue: Ave Atque Vale
A note on Borges
Picture Section
Copyright
About the Publisher
Prologue Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Prologue: A Figure of Speech 1. Celebrating the Marriage 2. A History of the Romance 3. Off on the Wrong Foot 4. The Norton Lectureship 5. Meeting Borges and Setting Out with a Master 6. Georgie’s Mystery, Elsa’s Bombshell 7. A Visitor and a Yard of Ale 8. Vietnam, Olga, and Harvard Square 9. Borges on Tour 10. Invitations and Goodbyes 11. Interregnum 12. Arrival 13. Settling In 14. The Recoleta 15. Cracks in the Façade 16. Oklahoma and the Fur Coat 17. Hobnobbing with the Rockefellers 18. New York and the Fur Coat 19. Buenos Aires and the Fur Coat 20. Silent Sufferer 21. An Aside 22. The Breaking Point 23. The Reckoning 24. Amongst the Lawyers 25. The Night of the Oxford Martyrs 26. Escape to Córdoba 27. The Mosquito and the Judge 28. The Salem Mystery Solved 29. Return to Maipú 30. Looking Back Epilogue: Ave Atque Vale A note on Borges Picture Section Copyright About the Publisher
A Figure of Speech Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Prologue: A Figure of Speech 1. Celebrating the Marriage 2. A History of the Romance 3. Off on the Wrong Foot 4. The Norton Lectureship 5. Meeting Borges and Setting Out with a Master 6. Georgie’s Mystery, Elsa’s Bombshell 7. A Visitor and a Yard of Ale 8. Vietnam, Olga, and Harvard Square 9. Borges on Tour 10. Invitations and Goodbyes 11. Interregnum 12. Arrival 13. Settling In 14. The Recoleta 15. Cracks in the Façade 16. Oklahoma and the Fur Coat 17. Hobnobbing with the Rockefellers 18. New York and the Fur Coat 19. Buenos Aires and the Fur Coat 20. Silent Sufferer 21. An Aside 22. The Breaking Point 23. The Reckoning 24. Amongst the Lawyers 25. The Night of the Oxford Martyrs 26. Escape to Córdoba 27. The Mosquito and the Judge 28. The Salem Mystery Solved 29. Return to Maipú 30. Looking Back Epilogue: Ave Atque Vale A note on Borges Picture Section Copyright About the Publisher
Synecdoche, a part standing for the whole.
In 1944, in the kind of incisive and highly literary statement typical of him, the celebrated Argentine poet and storyteller Jorge Luis Borges postulated in one of his tales that ‘Any life, no matter how long or complex it may be, is made up essentially of a single moment – the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.’
Borges’s ultimate fame as a writer is based on a mere thirty-four stories written between 1933 and 1953 and published in two collections, Ficciones and El Aleph. His fiction was unpopular at the time, considered cryptic and abstruse, and it wasn’t until he was in his seventies that he began to be swamped with awards and prizes and honours – among them, honorary degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge.
At birth he had been given his father’s first name. In a household of English speakers – with a grandmother and great aunt of English stock – it was only natural that to distinguish father and son he be dubbed Little Jorge, or Georgie. The name stuck. To his family and to a handful of intimates he was known ever after as Georgie.
The story told here in Georgie & Elsa , in which I was both reluctant witness and tricky participant, took place in a three-year span between 1967 and 1970. What I have recounted, besides depicting and illuminating hitherto unknown facts and events in the couple’s affairs, is an attempt to find out whether a person’s life can be typified by a single part of it. Can the ups and downs and vicissitudes of a brief marriage reflect and define the essential character of either of the partners in that alliance? In short, can a marriage of only a few years’ duration reveal a man’s whole life? The man is Borges. What does his short, failed marital union with Elsa Astete Millán tell us about him?
1. Celebrating the Marriage Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Prologue: A Figure of Speech 1. Celebrating the Marriage 2. A History of the Romance 3. Off on the Wrong Foot 4. The Norton Lectureship 5. Meeting Borges and Setting Out with a Master 6. Georgie’s Mystery, Elsa’s Bombshell 7. A Visitor and a Yard of Ale 8. Vietnam, Olga, and Harvard Square 9. Borges on Tour 10. Invitations and Goodbyes 11. Interregnum 12. Arrival 13. Settling In 14. The Recoleta 15. Cracks in the Façade 16. Oklahoma and the Fur Coat 17. Hobnobbing with the Rockefellers 18. New York and the Fur Coat 19. Buenos Aires and the Fur Coat 20. Silent Sufferer 21. An Aside 22. The Breaking Point 23. The Reckoning 24. Amongst the Lawyers 25. The Night of the Oxford Martyrs 26. Escape to Córdoba 27. The Mosquito and the Judge 28. The Salem Mystery Solved 29. Return to Maipú 30. Looking Back Epilogue: Ave Atque Vale A note on Borges Picture Section Copyright About the Publisher
Jorge Luis Borges and Elsa Astete Millán were married at a Buenos Aires registry office on 4 August 1967. The occasion seems not to have excited the notice of the press. On 21 September came a follow-up ceremony in the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de las Victorias, where both Borges’s mother Leonor and his sister Norah – the two of a religious bent – had married.
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