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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/facsch_papers Part of the Comparative Literature Commons, and the Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Willem, Linda M. "The Music of Borgesian Destiny in Saura's El Sur," Bulletin of Spanish Studies 83 (2006): 957-969. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Digital Commons @ Butler University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Butler University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Music of Borgesian Destiny in Saura’s El Sur Linda M. Willem Carlos Saura’s El Sur was aired on Spanish television in 1993 as part of a series of six programmes based on selected short stories by Jorge Luis Borges. The entire set of these hour-long productions has recently been released on video by the Films for the Humanities, thereby granting easy availability to what thus far has been one of Saura’s most difficult to acquire, and consequently least known, films. Described in its opening credits as an ‘adaptación libre’, Saura’s El Sur differs considerably from Borges’ short story of the same name. This is not surprising given Saura’s long-standing refusal to 1 serve as what he calls a mere ‘ilustrador’ of an already written text.