Juenger and Borges

[Bertil Haggman <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

Lluerna Cultural wrote:

> Thans to Bertil and Richar Brem for the information. Till the point I know,
> Borges didn´t write a journal, at least it wasn´t published. I also have
> looked for in some interviews - books with Borges and never read any quote
> about Jünger ( this year has been published a new book of interviews
> between Borges and Sabato, but I haven´t read it yet). We will have to wait
> the work of the Borges Foundation in Buenos Aires managed by his wife María
> Kodama. Anyway, the only thing I know about this is Borges considered "
> Storms of Steel" as one of his favourites books. I don´t remember where I
> found the quote ( probably in  the letters to his great friend and almost
> unknow poet Jacobo Sureda, but I am not sure), but what Borges said about
> this book is very simmilar to what André Gide said and also the volcanic
> eruption that EJ said in his journal,

Dani,

Am a Borges admirer myself, much because
of his love of the Edda and his interest
in Swedenborg.

EJ wrote quites ome notes on the visit:

They discussed Kafka, Don Quijote, Thousand
and One Night, Walt Whitman, and Flaubert.
Also Huxley. At the end of the diary note
EJ wrote, and I am trying to translate
into English:

"Borges has for sixty years followed my
development. As the first of my books
he read "Bajo la Tormenta de Acero", that
was translated on orders of the Argentinian
army in 1922. 'For me it was a volcanic
experience'.

Greetings from Sweden

Bertil Haggman