BORGES, Jorge Luis.
Nueva Refutación del tiempo. Buenos Aires, Oportet & Haereses, 1947.
In-8 [239 x 163] of 33 pp, [3] ff. the last one blank: paperback, red morocco folder and Devauchelle case.
First edition. Very rare.
One of Borges' most dazzling essays, reprinted in 1953 in Autres Inquisitions: "Time is a river that drags me, but I am the river; it is a tiger that tears me apart, but I am the tiger."
Signed autograph letter:
Cordialmente, to Marie Elisabeth Wrede // Jorge Luis Borges // 1948, Buenos Aires
Painter and draughtswoman of Austrian origin, Marie Elisabeth Wrede (1898-1981) lived in Paris where she was a student of Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant. She was a close friend of Paul Valéry.
The portrait of Borges that she drew appears on the frontispiece of the collection Ficciones (1944).
