http://baires.elsur.org/archives/30-days-with-borges-day-21-the-women-of-borges/ Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:58:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://baires.elsur.org/archives/30-days-with-borges-day-21-the-women-of-borges/comment-page-1/#comment-10849 MPO Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:21:16 +0000 http://baires.elsur.org/archives/30-days-with-borges-day-21-the-women-of-borges/#comment-10849 My pleasure! Well, there is so much to talk about the background and life of the Borges and Torre family...There is so much culture, sensitivity, history and literature! Norah (her real name was Leonor Fanny) and Jorge Luis Borges lived for a long time in Europe (that is how Norah met Guillermo de Torre, in Spain), related to writers and artists such as Juan Ramon Jimenez, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Picasso, Dalí, Miró among others... My pleasure! Well, there is so much to talk about the background and life of the Borges and Torre family…There is so much culture, sensitivity, history and literature! Norah (her real name was Leonor Fanny) and Jorge Luis Borges lived for a long time in Europe (that is how Norah met Guillermo de Torre, in Spain), related to writers and artists such as Juan Ramon Jimenez, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Picasso, Dalí, Miró among others…

]]> http://baires.elsur.org/archives/30-days-with-borges-day-21-the-women-of-borges/comment-page-1/#comment-10703 Jeff Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:31:50 +0000 http://baires.elsur.org/archives/30-days-with-borges-day-21-the-women-of-borges/#comment-10703 Thanks for adding the note about Norah Borges. I have too long neglected her in my discussions about her brother. I'm glad that you also mentioned her husband. I think many people don't realized that he was one of the leading literary critics in the Spanish language. Thanks for adding the note about Norah Borges. I have too long neglected her in my discussions about her brother. I’m glad that you also mentioned her husband. I think many people don’t realized that he was one of the leading literary critics in the Spanish language.

]]> http://baires.elsur.org/archives/30-days-with-borges-day-21-the-women-of-borges/comment-page-1/#comment-7079 MPO Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:11:45 +0000 http://baires.elsur.org/archives/30-days-with-borges-day-21-the-women-of-borges/#comment-7079 Talking about the Women around the life of Jorge Luis Borges, you cannot miss to mention his only sister, Norah Borges. A famous painter and ironically the one who started writing before his brother! She always had an excellent relation with "Georgie" as she called him. Her drawings appeared in the most important magazines of the 20´s. In 1923 the surrealist magazine French Manometre and in 1924 Martin Fierro published their paintings... Their paintings emit the same tenderness that it reflected in her life. Its painting is fragant, she sometimes commented that \"the painting has been invented to give joy to the painter and to the spectator". Norah lived immersed in an atmosphere of high culture.In 1928, definitively setteled in Buenos Aires, she married Guillermo de Torre, the Spanish literary critic and poet representative of the Generation of the ´27 and the Spanish vanguard. He belong to the same literary circle than Jorge Luis Borges while they all lived in Spain and then when they came back to their home town, Buenos Aires, they "brought" with them this literary movement. Guillermo and Norah had 2 children, Luis and Miguel de Torre, the only descendants of the Borges family. Talking about the Women around the life of Jorge Luis Borges, you cannot miss to mention his only sister, Norah Borges. A famous painter and ironically the one who started writing before his brother! She always had an excellent relation with “Georgie” as she called him.
Her drawings appeared in the most important magazines of the 20´s. In 1923 the surrealist magazine French Manometre and in 1924 Martin Fierro published their paintings…
Their paintings emit the same tenderness that it reflected in her life. Its painting is fragant, she sometimes commented that \”the painting has been invented to give joy to the painter and to the spectator”.
Norah lived immersed in an atmosphere of high culture.In 1928, definitively setteled in Buenos Aires, she married Guillermo de Torre, the Spanish literary critic and poet representative of the Generation of the ´27 and the Spanish vanguard. He belong to the same literary circle than Jorge Luis Borges while they all lived in Spain and then when they came back to their home town, Buenos Aires, they “brought” with them this literary movement.
Guillermo and Norah had 2 children, Luis and Miguel de Torre, the only descendants of the Borges family.

]]> http://baires.elsur.org/archives/30-days-with-borges-day-21-the-women-of-borges/comment-page-1/#comment-6809 Maria Kodama, the widow of Borges » Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:05:44 +0000 http://baires.elsur.org/archives/30-days-with-borges-day-21-the-women-of-borges/#comment-6809 [...] Borges, who lived most of his life as a bachelor and shared an apartment with his mother, became easily infatuated with women. [...] [...] Borges, who lived most of his life as a bachelor and shared an apartment with his mother, became easily infatuated with women. [...]

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