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HISPANIC-AMERICAN ISSUE fc, ' I'" Jorge Lui. Borge. Dath and the !I I Compa•• (.tory) Paul Horgan Collective Memorya XVlth-Centufy Spain Anthony Kerrigan Unamuno ART FEATURE: RUFINO TAMAYO

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Volume XXIV, Autumn, 1954, Number 3

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Contents ..

.., STORIES

Death and the Compass 251 Jorge Luis Borges The Moment of Truth 290 True Bowen The Best Chess in Cuemavaca 322 Esther McCoy

ARTICLES

Collective Memory: XVlth-century'Spain 264 Paul Horgan

Some Aspects of the Nature of Culture 301 Leslie Spier

GU EST ART1ST, XXI 300 Rufino -Tamayo

POETRY

Return Voyage 298 Jorge Carrera Andrade

BOOKS AND COMMENT

"Sorrow or Nothingness" 330 Anthony Kerrigan

Brief Reviews 341 Rall)6~f Sender's El verdt!go a/able 342 Jos~ SWlrez Carreno's The Final Hours

Comment 346 Santeros of Tome

A Guide to the Literature of the Southwest, L 354 Genevieve Porterfield'

The Editor's Comer 248

https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmq/vol24/iss3/17 4 : Front Matter t his poetry, Secret Country, was pub- THE lished with English translations by EDITOR'S CORNER . 11ft- JORGE LUIS BORGES was born in Bue· nos Aires in 1900. During the period of the First 'World.- War he studied in .0 UR CON VICT ION has Geneva, Switzerland. Following his long been that Hispanic.American studies he lived in Spain, where he am and letters are both rich and im· became a pan of the Ultraista move­ ponant. Our knowledge is that most ment-the avant-garde movement in of this material is not being made Spain roughly equivalent to the Sur· available in translation in this coun· realist in France. He returned to try. Our desire is to help make it Buenos Aires in 1921. At home, he available in NMQ. has acted the pan of a catalyst in But the job is difficult. The "ma· Argentine letters, stimulating new chinery" has not been set up, the talents and modes of expression, habit of attention to contemporary founding the journal Proa, and trans­ Hispanic.American material is not lating Virginia Woolf, Kafka, Faulk. established. Even though NMQ is in ner, and Gide. His own writings have part a "natural outlet" for such ma­ been published widely on several terial-originating as it does in the continentS. midst of a Spanish tradition, in the U.S.' only officially bi-lingual state­ TRUE BOWEN (not a pseudonym) is a it has taken us eighteen months to twenty-six·year-old American author· assemble the current issue. It's a good ity on the corrida. A native of Cleve­ issue, but it shouldn't have taken land, she lives in Mexico City, where that long to get together, and it is her column "Men and Bulls" appears deficient in the number of foreign five times weekly in the Mexico City contributors. News, Latin America's largest Eng. Clearly, this is an invitation-to lish-language newspaper. Miss Bow· writers both here and abroad. NMQ en has published one novel (And the is very much interested in Hispanic. Stars Shall Fall), completed a second, American material. Subject matter and is working on a third. is second~ry. The primary question is one of llegar a conocernos. ARTHUR L. CAMPA, Director of the Center of Latin·American studies at ~ CONTRIBUTORS the University of Denver, has recent· JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE, the distin· ly returned-from Spain where he gave guished Ecuadorian poet, has spent a series of lectures throughout the many years in the consular service of country under the sponsorship ofthe his country, in France, , United Specialists Division of the U.S. State States, and elsewhere. A selection of Department. cOfltinued on page 364

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