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16 vols. 4to. A substantial run of this influential and long-running literary and cultural journal directed by Victoria Ocampo, at various times in association with Jorge Luis Borges, Waldo Frank, Ortega y Gasset, Alfonso Reyes and others. Notable for many contributions by Jorge Luis Borges, who began with film and book reviews, but later published some of his most important stories and essays in the journal. Sur continued in publication through 1992 (371 issues). Other contributors include Langston Hughes, Huxley, Gropius, Michaux, Masters, Reyes, Heidegger, Maritain, Benda, Mistral, Gide, Breton, Eluard, Berdayev, Malraux, Jimenez, Steinbeck, Amado, Graham Greene, Eliot, Camus, Koestler, Shaw, etc. Bound for James Laughlin in groups of five or six issues, comprising: nos. 34-75, 94-128, and 141-158. As publisher of New Directions, Laughlin was an early champion of modernist literature in general and of Borges specifically. King, John. Sur, A sudy of the Argentine literary journal and its role in the development of a national culture (Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1986); Borges en Sur 1931-1980 (Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1999) Nicely bound in various hues of cloth, preserving original wrappers, for James Laughlin. Some soiling to bindings and toning to text.
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