A feature article in "La Repubblica" about the unreleased recordings of lectures given by Borges in 1965

In October of 1965 over the course of four afternoons, Jorge Luis Borges spoke about the tango. It is not known exactly where in Buenos Aires the lectures were given, but the venue was not large. The lectures had been lost in the fog of the past until one day writer Bernardo Atxaga received some tapes from a friend (who in turn had been given the tapes by a friend) with a note saying the tapes were of the author of El Aleph. And indeed it was the case.

Atxaga donated the tapes to the Casa del Lector Foundation a year ago. At the time Spanish daily El País wrote about the discovery in the article El tango perdido de Borges (Borges' Lost Tango), chronicling the lecture series and the fate of the recordings between the 1960s and the present day.

And now the Italian newspaper La Repubblica has covered the story in the article Borges i el tango (Borges and the Tango).

The article can be downloaded as a PDF (directly from this URL).